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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun An antithetical statement or expression; an instance of antithesis.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun An antithetic or contrasted statement.

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  • noun archaic An antithetic or contrasted statement.

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