Definitions
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- noun In rhetoric, the justification of an action by the argument that if it had been omitted something worse would have happened.
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- noun rhetoric The repetition of a word in an opposing sense.
- noun rhetoric
Antanaclasis .
Etymologies
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From Ancient Greek ἀντίστασις
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whichbe commented on the word antistasis
The defense of an action that prevented something worse from happening.
September 26, 2008
jmjarmstrong commented on the word antistasis
JM realises that antistasis is the basis of a lot of foreign policy.
December 22, 2010