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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
denouement
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ By midafternoon the drama had reached its denouement.
▪ Deaths and disclosures, universal and particular, denouements both unexpected and inexorable, transvestite melodrama on all levels including the suggestive.
▪ In that story there is no denouement, just the relish in the fray itself.
▪ Jacinta is once again feeling rejected and persecuted when an unexpected turn in events brings about a happy denouement.
▪ Mischievously, he rounds off his account of the trial with a denouement of his own.
▪ Some months later, came the denouement.
▪ There was the opening trauma, the suspects, the who-done-it, and even a form of denouement.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
denouement

1752, from French dénouement "an untying" (of plot), from dénouer "untie" (Old French desnouer) from des- "un-, out" (see dis-) + nouer "to tie, knot," from Latin nodus "a knot," from PIE *ned- "to bind, tie" (see net (n.)).

Wiktionary
denouement

n. (alternative spelling of dénouement English)

WordNet
denouement

  1. n. the outcome of a complex sequence of events

  2. the final resolution of the main complication of a literary or dramatic work

Usage examples of "denouement".

After that truly dramatic scene, during which I could guess that the denouement of the play was near at hand, I went to my charming countess, taking care to change my gondola three times--a necessary precaution to baffle spies.

Highly pleased at having accomplished half of my task, and at seeing myself near the denouement, I asked the lovely Frenchwoman whether she would like to see the sights of Bologna.

I guessed that I was near the denouement of the romance, but I was very far from congratulating myself, for I did not know whether the denouement would prove agreeable or not.

I was not long in following him, and the reader will soon know the nature of a denouement so long and so ardently desired.

The moment I am dressed, I will treat you to an amusing denouement of the comedy.

His continuators were Ulrich von Turnheim and Heinrich von Freiberg, whose denouement (not, however, original with them) was followed by Hermann Kurtz when he published a version of Gottfried's poem in modern German in 1844.

The apparition that claimed to be Bones, who in reality was at this moment lying unconscious, perhaps even dead by now, on the hard, cold cellar floor, did not vanish with the denouement.

There was always the tension of someone having performed major surgery, not unlike Eloise's struggles with difficult denouements in the plot.

Shattered friendships, bitter denouements, ruined marriages, stormy personal relationships… Ahhh!

These complications of Seldon and Marchiali, these complications of deliverance and reincarceration, these complications of personal resemblance, would have found a very proper denouement.

The Parapsychic teams were volubly and embarrassingly thanked for preventing a major disaster, and by cocktail time everyone was pleased by the denouement, especially Patsy Tucker and Terry Cle.