Definition of Countermoving

1. Verb. (present participle of countermove) ¹

2. Adjective. That moves in opposition or retaliation ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Countermoving

1. countermove [v] - See also: countermove

Lexicographical Neighbors of Countermoving

countermobilizations
countermobilize
countermobilized
countermobilizes
countermobilizing
countermodel
countermodels
countermortar fire
countermotion
countermotions
countermove
countermoved
countermovement
countermovements
countermoves
countermoving
countermure
countermured
countermures
countermuring
countermyth
countermyths
counternarcotics
counternarrative
counternarratives
counternatural
counternotice
counternotices
counternotification
counternotifications

Literary usage of Countermoving

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

1. The English Illustrated Magazine (1892)
"... began moving round as before, countermoving in the revolving mirrors on her right hand, she being as it were the fixed point in an undulating, dazzling, ..."

2. Creation Or Evolution?: A Philosophical Inquiry by George Ticknor Curtis (1887)
"... carried them along with it, although the time of their separate rotations was more or less modified by their own inherent and countermoving forces. ..."

3. Outlines of Analogical Philosophy: Being a Primary View of the Principles by George Field (1839)
"This is accomplished in two ways mechanically ; by polishing or reducing the penetrating points of substances countermoving in contact — and by extending ..."

4. The Works of the Learned and Reverend John Scott, D.D., Sometime Rector of by John Scott (1826)
"In which happy state we shall be no longer ground between those countermoving millstones, the law in our minds and the law in our members; ..."

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