“countersense”的英文意思_释义_用法

单词

countersense

释义

ˈcounterˌsense
[ad. F. contresens, f. contre = against + sens sense.]
An interpretation or meaning opposed to the true sense.
1645Milton Tetrach. Wks. (1847) 191/1 Herein the countersense of our divines to me..seems admirable; who teach that God gave this as a merciful law, not for man whom he here names..but for the wife whom he names not.c1645Howell Lett. (1650) I. 461 There are some words now in French which are turned to a countersense; as we use the Dutch word crank in English to be well-disposed, which in the original signifieth to be sick.1789P. Smyth tr. Aldrich's Archit. (1818) 46 Though since reformed by a modern artist..too much in countersense.
b. The co-existence of opposite senses in the same word.
1884C. Abel in Contemp. Rev. Apr. 500 The disappearance of countersense..admits of being lexicographically traced.

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