Definition of Antithets

1. Noun. (plural of antithet) ¹

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Definition of Antithets

1. antithet [n] - See also: antithet

Lexicographical Neighbors of Antithets

antitherapeutic
antitherapy
antitheses
antithesis
antithesize
antithesized
antithesizes
antithesizing
antithet
antithetic
antithetical
antitheticalities
antitheticality
antithetically
antitheticalness
antithets (current term)
antithrombic
antithrombin
antithrombin III
antithrombin test
antithrombins
antithrombotic
antithrombotics
antithyroglobulin antibody
antithyroid
antithyroid agent
antithyroid agents
antithyroid microsomal antibodies
antitilt
antitipping

Literary usage of Antithets

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Physical and Metaphysical Works of Lord Bacon Including the Advancement by Francis Bacon, Joseph Devey (1904)
"A Collection of studied antithets; or short and strong sentences, on both sides of the question, in a variety of subjects. A Collection of lesser Forms of ..."

2. The World's Great Classics by Timothy Dwight, Julian Hawthorne (1899)
"A collection of studied antithets; or short and strong 'sentences, on both sides of the question, in a variety of subjects. A collection of lesser Forms of ..."

3. Bacon: His Writings, and His Philosophy by George Lillie Craik (1846)
"The examples of antithets here laid down," says Bacon, " may not perhaps deserve the place assigned them ; but, as they were collected in my youth, ..."

4. A Theory of Salts: A Treatise on the Constitution of Bipolar (two-membered by Charles Blachford Mansfield (1865)
"... faculty of taking adjuncts, by composition with their voltaic antithets. Yet that this is a peculiar force, distinct from the ..."

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