Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for AN-TIPH'RA-SIS
ANTIPH'O-NYAN-TI-PHRAS'TIC, or AN-TI-PHRAS'TIC-AL
AN-TIPH'RA-SIS, n. [Gr. αντι, against, and φρασις, a form of speech.]
The use of words in a sense opposite to their proper meaning; as when a court of justice is called a court of vengeance. Johnson. Ash.
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