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antilibration

antilibration noun: a balancing; equilibrium.

Noun

antilibration (countable and uncountable, plural antilibrations)

  1. (archaic, rare) A balancing; equilibrium.
    • having enjoyed his artful antithesis, and solemn antilibration of cadences - we have had the cream of his peculiar excellencies, and may exclaim with Juvenal, Venimus ad summum fortune, or with Romeo, that it is time to be gone1831, Thomas De Quincey, “Dr. Parr and his Contemporaries”, in Blackwood's Magazine

Forms of antilibration

pluralantilibrations

Origin of antilibration

From anti- + libration.

Questions about antilibration

What does antilibration mean?
Antilibration means a balancing; equilibrium.
What part of speech is antilibration?
Antilibration is a noun.
What is the plural of antilibration?
The plural of antilibration is antilibrations.

Words near antilibration in the dictionary

  1. antilibidinous
  2. antilibido
  3. antilibidos
  4. antilibraries
  5. antilibrary
  6. antilibration
  7. antilibrations
  8. antilichen
  9. antilife
  10. antilifer
  11. antilifers

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