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Definition of Antithet
1. n. An antithetic or contrasted statement.
Definition of Antithet
1. Noun. (archaic) An antithetic or contrasted statement. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Antithet
1. an instance of antithesis [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Antithet
Literary usage of Antithet
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Basic Outline of Universology: An Introduction to the Newly Discovered by Stephen Pearl Andrews (1872)
"Both are themselves centered, in turn, upon the Idea of the Limit between Thet
and antithet; and the Positive consideration of Limits founds the Abstract ..."
2. Recent Exemplifications of False Philology by Fitzedward Hall (1872)
"... comes to have the same meaning, if taken as the antithet of explicit? ...
as the direct antithet of explicit (from the Latin explicitas, ..."
3. The Oratorical Dictionary by John Newland Maffitt (1835)
"A figure of speech in which a word is often repeated. ANTITHESIS. s. Contrast in
words. pi. antitheses. antithet'IC ..."
4. The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb by Maurice Henry Hewlett, Laurence Binyon, Edward James Hewlett, William Randolph Hearst, Jonathan Swift, Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb, Edward Verrall Lucas, Frederick Madison Smith, Mariano Tomás (1905)
"I think I miss nothing but a Character in antithet. manner which I do not know
why you left out; the moral to the boys building the giant, the omission ..."
5. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1901)
"Sheridan will not bear a com- m with him in the regular antithet- onstruction of
his sentences, and in mechanical artifices of his style, ;h so much later, ..."
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