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countercraft en · NOUN

Etymology

From counter- + craft.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) Strategies or tactics that serve to counter something.
    • He thought of his voice, a shriek from nowhere, stilling the Butcher's hands upon Anne's body — of countercraft that might reveal him, of snickering laughter and glowing irons in the keep of Campscapel. 1928, Leslie Barringer, Joris of the Rock:
    • The moves of good, the countercraft of Ill, / Did Joseph's life, with stirring scenes now fill, […] 1850, Psychologist (pseudonym), Sacred Incidents (page 117)