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Antithetic

adjective

Sharply contrasted in character or purpose. Synonym: antithetical. "Hope is antithetic to despair"

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... even the work of 'the heretics;' but simply transcriptional mistakes. How Dr. Hort, admitting the blunder, yet pleads that 'this remarkable reading is attractive by the new and interesting fact which it seems to attest, and by the antithetic force which it seems to add to the question in ver. 17,' [is more than we can understand. To us the expression seems most repulsive. No 'antithetic force' can outweigh our dislike to the idea that Barabbas was our Saviour's namesake! We prefer Origen's account, though he mistook ...

— The Causes of the Corruption of the Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels • John Burgon

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... organizations are found on the whole to grow more definite, albeit more simple. When the lines of development revealed through research are projected still farther toward their origin, they indicate an initial condition, directly antithetic to the postulated horde, in which the scant population was segregated in small discrete bodies, probably family groups; and that in each of these bodies there was a definite organization, while each group ...

— The Siouan Indians • W. J. McGee

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... A series of very loosely connected proverbs in couplets, x.-xv. being chiefly antithetic (cf. x. 1, xv. 1) and xvi. 1-xxii. 16 chiefly ...

— Introduction to the Old Testament • John Edgar McFadyen

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Words linked to "Antithetic" : antithesis, different