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Definition of Antithesis |
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Antithesis
An opposition or contrast of words or sentiments occurring in the same sentence; as, "The prodigal robs his heir; the miser robs himself." "He had covertly shot at Cromwell; he how openly aimed at the Queen." The second of two clauses forming an antithesis. Opposition; contrast. Related Definitions: Aimed, An, Antithesis, As, At, Contrast, Covertly, Forming, Had, He, Heir, Himself, His, How, In, Miser, Occurring, Of, Openly, Opposition, Or, Prodigal, Queen, Same, Second, Sentence, Shot, The, Two |
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Antithesis Quotations
Well, the first thing is that truth and power for me form an antithesis, an antagonism, which will hardly ever be resolved. I can define in fact, can simplify the history of human society, the evolution of human society, as a contest between power and freedom. Wole Soyinka The History of the world is not the theatre of happiness. Periods of happiness are blank pages in it, for they are periods of harmony, periods when the antithesis is in abeyance. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel The farther a society progresses, the more clearly the individual becomes the antithesis of the group. Herbert Read Now the relation which, in the sphere of nature, being and semblance or sensation bear to one another in this antithesis, is the same as that which in ethics exists between good and pleasure or feeling. Friedrich Schleiermacher In brief, egoism in its modern interpretation, is the antithesis, not of altruism, but of idealism. John B. Robinson |
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Antithesis Translations
antithesis in French is antithese antithesis in German is Widerspruch antithesis in Swedish is motsats, antites |
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