contraversion

English

Noun

contraversion (countable and uncountable, plural contraversions)

  1. A turning to the opposite side; antistrophe.
    • a. 1729, William Congreve, Poems on Several Occasions
      The second Stanza was called the Antistrophé , from the Contraversion of the Chorus

References

contraversion in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

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