antilibration en · NOUN
Etymology
From anti- + libration.
Meanings
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(archaic, countable, rare, uncountable) A balancing; equilibrium.
having enjoyed his artful antithesis, and solemn antilibration of cadences - we have had the cream of his peculiar excellencies, and may exclaim with Juvenal, Venimus ad summum fortune, or with Romeo, that it is time to be gone
1831, Thomas De Quincey, “Dr. Parr and his Contemporaries”, in Blackwood's Magazine:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| antilibrations | Number=Plur | lexicographic |