In early alliterative poetry it is especially used antithetically with "bliss.". From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"] Reference
The word T+M% (tam,) although generally taken for upright and sincere, is here put antithetically. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary on Genesis - Volume 2] Reference
These notions are intimately related, although mostly antithetically, to those of music as a divine art. From Wordnik.com. [MUSIC AS A DEMONIC ART] Reference
Closely connected with this idea, dependent upon it in many ways, or antithetically presupposed by it, is the idea of music as a demonic art. From Wordnik.com. [MUSIC AS A DIVINE ART] Reference
The gate is, antithetically, in fact, a figurative interpersonal barricade brilliantly employed in this abbreviated, allegorical composition. From Wordnik.com. [MANHATTAN MAN AND OTHER POEMS by JACK LYNCH] Reference
The co-speaker was Layton Blanchet, one of those iconic, antithetically mixed personalities the American South has produced unrelentingly since Reconstruction. From Wordnik.com. [The Glass Rainbow] Reference
I'm ambitious, in a way; but when that way requires me to leave the people -- the things -- that I love, then ambition chameleonizes and I become ambitious antithetically. From Wordnik.com. [A Fool There Was] Reference
Any large group of humans needs a minority group that has an overwhelming ability to abduct and kill individuals or any smaller group that may act antithetically to their interests. From Wordnik.com. [Bond, Body Types and Health stuff] Reference
In 1745, when the Pretender marched into the heart of the kingdom, without being joined by his friends or opposed by his enemies, as Gibbon antithetically observed, all the boys at the school, excepting young. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 342, April, 1844] Reference
It is very often used antithetically to the word earth. From Wordnik.com. [A Commentary on the Epistle to the Ephesians] Reference
Verses 5 and 6 set forth antithetically our duties to His little ones. From Wordnik.com. [Expositions of Holy Scripture : St. Matthew Chaps. IX to XXVIII] Reference
"I am just getting a soldier's stuff into me," responded Pisgah, antithetically. From Wordnik.com. [Bohemian Days Three American Tales] Reference
I just don't see that they're as common on the landscape as the people who believe antithetically to them. From Wordnik.com. [Consul-At-Arms] Reference
The actual finale begins (so to speak) antithetically with the last misfortune of the unlucky Spithridates. From Wordnik.com. [A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800] Reference
But as all that follows refers antithetically to John, we infer that these words also had such a reference. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Jesus Christ in Its Historical Connexion and Historical Developement.] Reference
'Grace' and 'Glory' are generally opposed antithetically; in this epistle they are united, for in the verse before my text I read. From Wordnik.com. [Expositions of Holy Scripture Ephesians; Epistles of St. Peter and St. John] Reference
He has been led astray, it seems to me, by his desire to present his argument antithetically (using the term in its logical sense). From Wordnik.com. [The Cult of Incompetence] Reference
Byron's mother "would have it" that her son was like Rousseau, but he disclaimed the honour antithetically and with needless particularity. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 2] Reference
Closed canopy forests, antithetically, remain shaded, cool and moist, and reach an equilibrium where fuel loads and growth are relatively stable. From Wordnik.com. [All Today's News - Sightline Daily] Reference
He obviously employed them antithetically: they contain correlative ideas, and cannot be thoroughly understood apart from their reciprocal relation. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Jesus Christ in Its Historical Connexion and Historical Developement.] Reference
Adoptian Christology only after they had expressed their doctrine antithetically and developed it to a theory, and always with a certain reservation. From Wordnik.com. [History of Dogma, Volume 1 (of 7)] Reference
Such then, we affirm, is the brief abstract -- antithetically expressed -- of the characteristic principle by which the system under review is distinguished from all former systems. From Wordnik.com. [The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey—Vol. 1 With a Preface and Annotations by James Hogg] Reference
I assume he means this antithetically. From Wordnik.com. [Quality Peoples] Reference
Whose Spirit, antithetically mixed. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 2] Reference
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