Sunday 25 May 2008

Dawn(ing)

A N A G N O R I S I S

The moment of recognition or discovery (especially in myths, plays, films, etc.)

[From Latin, from Greek anagnorizein (to recognize or discover). Ultimately from Indo-European root gno- (to know) that is the ancestor of such words as know, can, notorious, notice, connoisseur, recognize, diagnosis, ignore, annotate, noble, and narrate.]

(See http://wordsmith.org/words/anagnorisis.html)

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