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- noun rhetoric A
discrediting orrejection of anauthority .
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Related to Ancient Greek ἀντίρρησις (antirresis, "altercation")
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Rejecting reprehensively the opinion or authority of someone. (Silva Rhetoricae)
May 17, 2008