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Antistasis

ANTIS'TASIS

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Noun.
[Gr. Opposite, and station.]
In oratory, the defense of an action from the consideration that if it had been omitted, something worse would have happened.

Definition 2024


antistasis

antistasis

English

Noun

antistasis

  1. (rhetoric) The repetition of a word in an opposing sense.
  2. (rhetoric) Antanaclasis.

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