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Webster 1828 Edition
Antistasis
ANTIS'TASIS
,Noun.
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
- (rhetoric) The repetition of a word in an opposing sense.
- (rhetoric) Antanaclasis.
Hyponyms
- (repetition in an opposing sense): antanaclasis