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counteraddress

noun

Etymology

From counter- + address.

  1. derived from dīrēctus — “straight; right”
  2. derived from *addīrēctiāre✻
  3. derived from adrecier — “to straighten, address”
  4. inherited from adressen — “to raise erect, adorn”
  5. prefixed as counteraddress — “counter + address”

Definitions

  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.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for counteraddress. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA