antilibration

noun

antilibration

noun

Etymology From anti- + libration.

1

Archaic, Rare A balancing; equilibrium.

  • 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 gone1831, Thomas De Quincey, “Dr. Parr and his Contemporaries”, in Blackwood's Magazine:
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Libra

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