Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In an antithetical manner; by means of antithesis.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb By way antithesis.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb In an
antithetic manner. - adverb Using
antithesis .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb with antithesis; in an antithetical manner
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Examples
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Very trivial, perhaps, this anguish seems to weather-worn mortals who have to think of Christmas bills, dead loves, and broken friendships; but it was not less bitter to Maggieperhaps it was even more bitterthan what we are fond of calling antithetically the real troubles of mature life.
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Very trivial, perhaps, this anguish seems to weather-worn mortals who have to think of Christmas bills, dead loves, and broken friendships; but it was not less bitter to Maggie -- perhaps it was even more bitter -- than what we are fond of calling antithetically the real troubles of mature life.
The Mill on the Floss George Eliot 1849
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It will be an incredible precedent if a Canadian court, under some theory or other of human rights, were to declare a practice that I think is antithetically opposed to human rights values to be constitutionally permissible, he said.
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It will be an incredible precedent if a Canadian court, under some theory or other of human rights, were to declare a practice that I think is antithetically opposed to human rights values to be constitutionally permissible, he said.
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No matter how hard the left in this country tries, they will never be able to totally squash FREEDOM. over-the-top kookiness about things that cannot be empirically proven. socialism is not a taboo boogeyman concept, nor does it operate antithetically to “freedom”.
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The co-speaker was Layton Blanchet, one of those iconic, antithetically mixed personalities the American South has produced unrelentingly since Reconstruction.
The Glass Rainbow James Lee Burke 2010
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The co-speaker was Layton Blanchet, one of those iconic, antithetically mixed personalities the American South has produced unrelentingly since Reconstruction.
The Glass Rainbow James Lee Burke 2010
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Marx basically antithetically reformed christianity into its anti christian form.
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The co-speaker was Layton Blanchet, one of those iconic, antithetically mixed personalities the American South has produced unrelentingly since Reconstruction.
The Glass Rainbow James Lee Burke 2010
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The co-speaker was Layton Blanchet, one of those iconic, antithetically mixed personalities the American South has produced unrelentingly since Reconstruction.
The Glass Rainbow James Lee Burke 2010
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