inversion

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However, in the case of the antichristic, we are not just dealing with negation or opposition, but inversion -- inversion of the good, true, and beautiful, among other transcendental categories.

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  1. noun The act of inverting.
  2. noun The state of being inverted.
  3. noun An interchange of position of adjacent objects in a sequence, especially a change in normal word order, such as the placement of a verb before its subject.
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  • And this is such an inversion, and such a wonderful example of children being the agents of change. —  Negroponte takes OLPC to Colombia
  • He realized he had known it for some time but had not been able to accept it because it required such a total inversion, a turning inside out and outside in of all previous beliefs. —  MacDonald, John D. - Wine of the Dreamers (v1.0) (html)
  • Because ozone absorbs heat directly from the sun's rays, the stratosphere exhibits a reverse temperature structure, or thermal "inversion"--it gets warmer with altitude rather than cooler. —  Omni: June 1993
  • However, in the case of the antichristic, we are not just dealing with negation or opposition, but inversion -- inversion of the good, true, and beautiful, among other transcendental categories. —  One Cosmos
  • 60 A similar instance of conventionality constantly repeated is the sin of inversion, which is no less prevalent, throughout the poem, in the conversational than in the narrative portions. —  The Germ Thoughts towards Nature in Poetry, Literature and Art
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  1. Latin inversiō, inversiōn-, from inversus, past participle of invertere, to invert; see invert.

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  1. = French inversion = Spanish inversion = Portuguese inversão = Italian inversione, from Latin inversio(n-), inversion, from invertere, past participle inversus, turn about: see invert.
 

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