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- noun
Aggression shown in response to the aggression of another.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Prime Minister Omar Abdirashid Sharmarke described the government offensive as "counteraggression," following attacks from Islamic rebels who in recent weeks had seized positions close to presidential palace.
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Law, as such, is a sovereign principle of counteraggression, and without law there is no legal claim to property, and thus no capitalism to allow for any anarchocapitalism.
Anarcho-Capitalism and Statist Lock-In, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Adolescents who are immobilized or overwhelmed by conflict over feelings of counteraggression and self-denigration are depressed, sullen, constricted, suspicious, fearful, and subject to intense free-floating anxiety.
Clinical Work with Adolescents Judith Marks Mishne 1986
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