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plural antitheses
A proposition that is the diametric opposite of some other proposition. examples
(rhetoric) A device by which two contrasting ideas are juxtaposed in parallel form; a figure of speech arranged in this manner quotations examples
Antithesis, opposing things to things,Oft from the contrast strength and beauty brings.]
Langley, A Manual of the Figures of Rhetoric, […], Doncaster: Printed by C. White, Baxter-Gate, page 22
(philosophy) The second stage of a dialectical process in which the thesis is negated. examples