contraversion

English

Noun

contraversion (countable and uncountable, plural contraversions)

1. A turning to the opposite side; antistrophe.
   • a. 1729, William Congreve, Poems on Several Occasions:

     The second Stanza was called the Antistrophé , from the Contraversion of the Chorus

Related terms

• contraversive

References

“contraversion”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• overconstrain