counterpole

noun

noun

Etymology From counter- + pole.

The exact opposite.

It is enough to say, that it [German prose] offers the counterpole to the French style.1840, Thomas De Quincey, “Style”, in Critical Suggestions on Style and Rhetoric with German Tales and Other Narrative Papers (De Quincey’s Works; XI), London: James Hogg & Sons, published 1859, →OCLC, part I, page 191:

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