Antistrophon

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A counterargument as a retort obsolete, rhetoric

    "Now that he may know what it is to be a Childe, and yet to meddle with edg'd tooles, I turn his Antiſtrophon upon his own head;"

Example

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"Now that he may know what it is to be a Childe, and yet to meddle with edg'd tooles, I turn his Antiſtrophon upon his own head;"

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἀντίστροφος (antístrophos, “turned towards each other”), from στρέφω (stréphō).

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