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Definition of Antithets
1. antithet [n] - See also: antithet
Lexicographical Neighbors of Antithets
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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