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eucatastrophes

eucatastrophes is the plural of eucatastrophe.

Meaning of eucatastrophe

Noun

eucatastrophe (plural eucatastrophes)

  1. A catastrophe (dramatic event leading to plot resolution) that results in the protagonist's well-being.
    • But at the story of the little boy (which is a fully attested fact of course) with its apparent sad ending and then its sudden unhoped-for happy ending, I was deeply moved and had that peculiar emotion we all have – though not often. […] For it I coined the word ‘eucatastrophe’: the sudden happy...[1944 November 7, J[ohn] R[onald] R[euel] Tolkien, “88. From a Letter to Christopher Tolkien[,] 28 October 1944 (FS 58)”, in Humphrey Carpenter with the assistance of Christopher Tolkien, editors...

Questions about eucatastrophes

What is eucatastrophes the plural of?
Eucatastrophes is the plural of eucatastrophe.

Words near eucatastrophes in the dictionary

  1. eucaryotic
  2. eucaryots
  3. eucasin
  4. eucasins
  5. eucatastrophe
  6. eucatastrophes
  7. eucatastrophic
  8. eucatastrophically
  9. eucatropine
  10. Euceda
  11. Eucedas

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