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Definition of Antitheses
1. antithesis [n] - See also: antithesis
Lexicographical Neighbors of Antitheses
Literary usage of Antitheses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Some Elements of Forcefulness in the Comparisons of Jesus: With Comparative by Benjamin Willard Robinson (1904)
"His figurative antitheses, however, are stronger and more effective than those in
... One group of Jesus' antitheses contrasts the minute with the vast. ..."
2. The Place of Christ in Modern Theology by Andrew Martin Fairbairn (1895)
"... the antitheses in their sharpest form were the oldest and most authentic; the
others had their date fixed according as they exhibited the antitheses as ..."
3. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1909)
"... ID us. all antitheses, absolutely simple and unchangeable, and in whom before
and after, thinking and speaking, coincide. He repudiates also speculative ..."
4. The Teaching of Jesus about the Future According to the Synoptic Gospels by Henry Burton Sharman (1908)
"antitheses TO THE KINGDOM OF GOD Some definite knowledge as to the nature of the
future of the kingdom of God would be derivable, it may be supposed, ..."
5. Rhetoric: A Text-book, Designed for Use in Schools and Colleges, and for by Erastus Otis Haven (1869)
"CHAPTER V. antitheses. 34. The Mind notices both Similarities and Differences
... The simplest antitheses are those in which the attention is called to the ..."
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