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counterlaw

counterlaw noun: a law that counteracts or opposes another law.

Noun

counterlaw (plural counterlaws)

  1. A law that counteracts or opposes another law.
    • Though one of the great laws of the Proustian universe is the incompatibility of knowledge and desire, one of its less well-known, yet not less powerful, counterlaws, is the interdependency of knowledge and desire, best illustrated, as we shall see, by the case of snobbery.1997, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Novel Gazing: Queer Readings in Fiction, page 79

Forms of counterlaw

pluralcounterlaws

Origin of counterlaw

From counter- + law.

Questions about counterlaw

What does counterlaw mean?
Counterlaw means a law that counteracts or opposes another law.
What part of speech is counterlaw?
Counterlaw is a noun.
What is the plural of counterlaw?
The plural of counterlaw is counterlaws.

Words near counterlaw in the dictionary

  1. counterlateral
  2. counterlath
  3. counterlathed
  4. counterlathing
  5. counterlaths
  6. counterlaw
  7. counterlaws
  8. counterlawsuit
  9. counterlawsuits
  10. counterleague
  11. counterleagues

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