0 the end of a story, in which everything is explained, or the end result of a situation
1 the final part of a work of literature, after the climax (= the most important or exciting part)
But we have also found that the romance vanishes away like a ghost, dwindles out, closes with ragged ends, has no denouement.
If they would, however, many could escape from this fatal denouement which suddenly terminates their life at an age when ordinary life is only beginning.
It was all so true and universal, the characters so well drawn, the denouement so happy!
So sudden and astounding was this denouement that Louise did not even scream.
We could not stay for the denouement, as we had a nervous old lady with us, who firmly declined to witness any such hair-raising spectacle.
Even the climactic moments of the evening substitute teasing collections of imagery and text for a tidy conclusion and denouement.
The denouement of acceptance is not predicated upon the male object's 'explanations' (presumably, as she does not enumerate them), but upon self-examination.
Many historians have taken it as the final chord in the symphony of colonialism, the denouement of the nationalist movement, the end of an era.
