counterview
English
Etymology
counter- + view
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkaʊntə(ɹ)ˌvjuː/
Noun
counterview (countable and uncountable, plural counterviews)
- (countable) An opposing viewpoint.
- A posture in which two persons face each other.
- 1667, John Milton, “Book IX”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], OCLC 228722708; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554:
- Within the Gates of Hell sate Sin and Death,
In counterview
- 1852, William Hamilton, Discussions on Philosophy and Literature, Education and University Reform
- M. Peisse has ably advocated the counterview in his preface and appendix.
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- A position in which two dissimilar things illustrate each other by opposition; contrast.
- 1731 (date written), Simon Wagstaff [pseudonym; Jonathan Swift], “An Introduction to the Following Treatise”, in A Complete Collection of Genteel and Ingenious Conversation, […], London: […] B[enjamin] Motte […], published 1738, OCLC 181801198, page lxi:
- I have drawn ſome Lines of Sir John Linger's Character, the Derbyſhire Knight, on purpoſe to place it in Counter-view or Contraſt with that of the other Company […]
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