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counterviews

counterviews is the plural of counterview.

Meaning of counterview

Noun

counterview (countable and uncountable, plural counterviews)

  1. (countable) An opposing viewpoint.
  2. A posture in which two persons face each other.
    • Within the Gates of Hell sate Sin and Death,
      In counterview1667, John Milton, “Book IX”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished...
  3. A position in which two dissimilar things illustrate each other by opposition; contrast.
    • I have drawn ſome Lines of Sir John Linger's Character, the Derbyſhire Knight, on purpoſe to place it in Counter-view or Contraſt with that of the other Company[…]1731 (date written), Simon Wagstaff [pseudonym; Jonathan Swift], “An Introduction to the Following Treatise”, in A Complete Collection of Genteel and Ingenious Conversation, […], London: […]...

Questions about counterviews

What is counterviews the plural of?
Counterviews is the plural of counterview.

Words near counterviews in the dictionary

  1. countervenom
  2. countervenoms
  3. counterview
  4. counterviewpoint
  5. counterviewpoints
  6. counterviews
  7. counterviolence
  8. countervirus
  9. counterviruses
  10. countervision
  11. countervisions

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