antilibration

English

Etymology

From anti- +‎ libration.

Noun

antilibration (countable and uncountable, plural antilibrations)

  1. (archaic, rare) A balancing; equilibrium.
    • 1831, Thomas De Quincey, “Dr. Parr and his Contemporaries”, in Blackwood's Magazine:
      having enjoyed his artful antithesis, and solemn antilibration of cadences - we have had the cream of his peculiar excellencies, and may exclaim with Juvenal, Venimus ad summum fortune, or with Romeo, that it is time to be gone

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