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emplotting

emplotting is the present participle and gerund of emplot.

Meaning of emplot

Verb

emplot (third-person singular simple present emplots, present participle emplotting, simple past and past participle emplotted)

  1. To place an event in the context of a plot or story-line to make a narrative.
    • One thing is, however, certain: Through the early rudimentary translations from the Sanskrit, India was emplotted by the West. By this I mean that incomplete projections from a variety of sources were given a voice defined through narrative, and received the authority of signification.1991, Dorothy Matilda Figueira, Translating the Orient, page 8

Questions about emplotting

What is emplotting the present participle and gerund of?
Emplotting is the present participle and gerund of emplot.

Words near emplotting in the dictionary

  1. emplot
  2. emplotment
  3. emplotments
  4. emplots
  5. emplotted
  6. emplotting
  7. employ
  8. employ a steam engine to crack a nut
  9. employ'd
  10. employabilities
  11. employability

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Adapted from Wiktionary: emplotting (page history and authors); emplot (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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