counteraddress

noun

counteraddress

noun

Etymology From counter- + address.

1

A speech or address made in response to another speech.

We have received the addresses for removing the chancellor, and the counteraddresses from the lords and convocation; and you will know, before this reaches you, our sentiments of them here.Dece,ber 31 1713, Jonathan Swift, letter to the Archbishop of Dublin (William King):

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