Antilibration

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A balancing; equilibrium. archaic, countable, rare, uncountable

    "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"

Example

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"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"

Etymology

From anti- + libration.

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