contraversion

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English

Noun

contraversion (countable and uncountable, plural contraversions)

  1. A turning to the opposite side; antistrophe.
    • a. 1729, William Congreve, Poems on Several Occasions:
      The second Stanza was called the Antistrophé , from the Contraversion of the Chorus

References

contraversion”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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