[L., a. Gr. ἀναγνώρισις, f. ἀνα-γνωρίζ-ειν to recognise, discover.] Recognition; the dénouement in a drama.
a. 1800. Blair is cited in Webster.
1833. Blackw. Mag., XXXIV. 464. He, aged man, ignorant of the anagnorisis, is overcome by the catastrophe.
1846. De Quincey, Antigone, Wks. XIII. 220. Some dreadful discovery or anagnorisis (i.e., recognition of identity) takes place.
