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Meanings
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(idiomatic) By being partially or entirely a response to a stimulus or other event, without which there would be a diminished or no such action or statement.; (while under) duress; by dint of; in the face of; in light of; in return; (in) response;.
Viewed in its proper historical context this reaction fits a not-unfamiliar pattern seen first after emancipation of slaves and the Thirteenth Amendment, then in reaction to blacks holding political office during reconstruction.
2016, Obi Nwasokwa, Witness to Greatness; The Consequential Presidency of Barack Obama in Perspective, page 422:
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fr en réponse ((in) response)