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Counterview

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Coun´ter`view`    (koun´t?r-v?`)
n.1.An opposite or opposing view; opposition; a posture in which two persons front each other.
Within the gates of hell sat Death and Sin,
In counterview.
- Milton
M. Peisse has ably advocated the counterview in his preface and appendix.
- Sir W. Hamilton.
2.A position in which two dissimilar things illustrate each other by opposition; contrast.
I have drawn some lines of Linger's character, on purpose to place it in counterview, or contrast with that of the other company.
- Swift.


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I desired that the senate of Rome might appear before me, in one large chamber, and an assembly of somewhat a later age in counterview, in another.
Gulliver's Travels by Swift, Jonathan View in context
Meanwhile ere thus was sin'd and judg'd on Earth, Within the Gates of Hell sate Sin and Death, In counterview within the Gates, that now Stood open wide, belching outrageous flame Farr into CHAOS, since the Fiend pass'd through, Sin opening, who thus now to Death began.
Paradise Lost by Milton, John View in context
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