Dictionary

countermeet en · VERB

Etymology

From counter- + meet.

Meanings

1. To meet (something) in response to a thing; to counter.
   • Yes; and rent, and payments, clothing, food ; how much to plant of this or that, and where; how preserve the soil fertility, check erosion by the sudden rains, rotate the crops to best advantage, countermeet this loss or that. 1933, Earnest Albert Raymond, The Super-science of Success, page 77:
   • Yet, this desire for invisibility and faithfulness, no doubt here born out of love and awe for the work being translated, of being prudent rather than bold, is countermet by the fact that as translation and creative writing share the same processual nature, that translation is both a creative and critical practice, that the creative text depends on translation for its survival, translators then must share the same responsibility of the writer toward their text, because this is, after all, the verbal embodiment of their own unique reading and response. 2013, Graeme Harper, A Companion to Creative Writing:
   • I admire the question by which you have countermet and rebuked my own. 1873, [Edward Bulwer-Lytton], Kenelm Chillingly: His Adventures and Opinions […], 2nd edition, volume I, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, book II, page 322:
   • From the point of view of the Cola ruler , this alliance must have been to coordinate action to countermeet the rivalry offered by the rulers of Bengal and the Sailendras of Sumatra. 1994, Journal of Ancient Indian History, volume 19, page 23:

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