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antiphrastical

Adjective CEFR C2

Definitions

Antiphrastic.

rhetoric

Examples

“We are now beginning to let⟳ ourselves be fooled no longer by the arrogant antiphrastical recriminations of good society in favour of the very thing it sets aside, ignores, smothers, or destroys; we know⟳ that to give⟳ writing its future, it is necessary to overthrow⟳ the myth: the birth of the reader must be at the cost⟳ of the death of the Author.”

CEFR level

C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
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