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Counteraction   Listen
noun
Counteraction  n.  Action in opposition; hindrance resistance. "(They) do not... overcome the counteraction of a false principle or of stubborn partiality."






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Counteraction" Quotes from Famous Books



... it was touched, enfeebled; and with the increasing powers of reflection, the impetuosity of the will became naturally lessened. Those few glimpses along the roadside which had made her sensible to the beauties she was about to lose, had prepared her mind to act in counteraction of her impulse; and the event which had brought into play the maternal instinct, naturally helped the cause of roason in ...
— Charlemont • W. Gilmore Simms

... the buildings. We did not see the dilapidation, we did not smell the dirt, we did not feel the squalor. A woman was lighting a fire in a brazier on her doorstep. She looked hostilely at us. We beamed in counteraction. She looked more hostilely. As the Artist wanted to sketch her house, some words seemed necessary. I detailed our emotions. Was not her lot, cast in this ...
— Riviera Towns • Herbert Adams Gibbons



Words linked to "Counteraction" :   neutralisation, nullification, neutralization



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