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counterlaws

counterlaws is the plural of counterlaw.

Meaning of counterlaw

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

Questions about counterlaws

What is counterlaws the plural of?
Counterlaws is the plural of counterlaw.

Words near counterlaws in the dictionary

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

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