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Adversative

adjective
1.
Expressing antithesis or opposition.  Synonym: oppositive.



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... the four elements, the seven planets, and all the particular stars of the pole Antastick, are adversative against me, or else I was begotten and born in the wane of the Moon, when every thing as Lactantius in his fourth book of Consultations doth say, goeth asward. Aye, masters, aye, you may laugh, but I must weep; you may joy, but I must sorrow; shedding salt tears from the watery fountains of my ...
— 2. Mucedorus • William Shakespeare [Apocrypha]


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