Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for AN-TI-HY-POPH'O-RA
AN-TI-HYP-O-CHOND'RI-ACAN-TI-HYS-TER'IC
AN-TI-HY-POPH'O-RA, n. [Gr. αντι, and ὑποφορα, an inference.]
In rhetoric, a figure which consists in refuting an objection by the opposition of a contrary sentence. – Smith. Johnson. Ash.
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