counterview

plural counterviews

1. countableAn opposing viewpoint.
2. countableuncountableA posture in which two persons face each other.

   Within the Gates of Hell sate Sin and Death, In counterview

   1667, John Milton, “Book IX”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC

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   M. Peisse has ably advocated the counterview in his preface and appendix.

   1852, William Hamilton, Discussions on Philosophy and Literature, Education and University Reform

3. countableuncountableA position in which two dissimilar things illustrate each other by opposition; contrast.

   I have drawn ſome Lines of Sir John Linger's Character, the Derbyſhire Knight, on purpoſe to place it in Counter-view or Contraſt with that of the other Company[…]

   1731 (date written), Simon Wagstaff [pseudonym; Jonathan Swift], “An Introduction to the Following Treatise”, in A Complete Collection of Genteel and Ingenious Conversation, […], London: […] B[enjamin] Motte […], published 1738, →OCLC, page lxi