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Definition of Counterstroke
1. n. A stroke or blow in return.
Definition of Counterstroke
1. Noun. An act done in revenge. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Counterstroke
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Counterstroke
Literary usage of Counterstroke
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Editorials from The Washington Post, 1917-1920 by Ira Elbert Bennett (1921)
"Friday, July 19, 1918 The counterstroke THE story of the counterstroke ...
Foch will begin a major offensive at this time, but his counterstroke is so ..."
2. The Father of British Canada: A Chronicle of Carleton by William Charles Henry Wood (1916)
"... CHAPTER VII THE counterstroke 1776-1778 '. 3 Six thousand British troops,
commanded by Burgoyne, and four thousand Germans, commanded by Baron Riedesel, ..."
3. Lectures on the History of Philosophy by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1892)
"The elements are only a mansion and counterstroke of the inward power, a canse
of the movement of the tincture." ' Sensuous things entirely lose the force ..."
4. Atlas and Epitome of Traumatic Fractures and Dislocations by Heinrich Helferich (1902)
"A force acting at more than one point (double-acting foree) may simulate so-called
fracture by counterstroke ; as, for instance, a blow on the forehead ..."
5. On War by Carl von Clausewitz, James John Graham, Frederic Natusch Maude (1908)
"Under circumstances on this grand scale, a tremendous counterstroke was ...
but this counterstroke might also end in the complete destruction of the enemy. ..."
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