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counterview en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈkaʊntə(ɹ)ˌvjuː/

Etymology

From counter- + view.

Meanings

1. (countable) An opposing viewpoint.
2. (countable, uncountable) A posture in which two persons face each other.
   • Within the Gates of Hell sate Sin and Death, In counterview 1667, John Milton, “Book IX”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
   • M. Peisse has ably advocated the counterview in his preface and appendix. 1852, William Hamilton, Discussions on Philosophy and Literature, Education and University Reform:
3. (countable, uncountable) A position in which two dissimilar things illustrate each other by opposition; contrast.
   • I have drawn ſome Lines of Sir John Linger's Character, the Derbyſhire Knight, on purpoſe to place it in Counter-view or Contraſt with that of the other Company[…] 1731 (date written), Simon Wagstaff [pseudonym; Jonathan Swift], “An Introduction to the Following Treatise”, in A Complete Collection of Genteel and Ingenious Conversation, […], London: […] B[enjamin] Motte […], published 1738, →OCLC, page lxi:

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