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- noun Plural form of
counterorder .
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Toward evening — after much disputing and many mistakes made by generals who did not go to their proper places, and after adjutants had been sent about with counterorders — when it had become plain that the enemy was everywhere in flight and that there could and would be no battle,
War and Peace 2003
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Mervyn Le Roy was shouting orders and counterorders from a crane, and thin green rivers began snaking their way down my face from my laurel wreath, which was made of inferior metal, with a horrible fer -
An Autobiography Peter, Ustinov 1977
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Months of being held in check, months of orders and counterorders and a contemptible war had sickened him.
Tai-Pan Clavell, James 1966
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Toward evening -- after much disputing and many mistakes made by generals who did not go to their proper places, and after adjutants had been sent about with counterorders -- when it had become plain that the enemy was everywhere in flight and that there could and would be no battle, Kutuzov left Krasnoe and went to Dobroe whither his headquarters had that day been transferred.
War and Peace Leo Tolstoy 1869
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