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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 coun·ter·view /ˈkaʊntɚ/

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Coun·ter·view n.
 1. An opposite or opposing view; opposition; a posture in which two persons front each other.
 Within the gates of hell sat Death and Sin,
 In counterview.   --Milton
    M. Peisse has ably advocated the counterview in his preface and appendix.   --Sir W. Hamilton.
 2. A position in which two dissimilar things illustrate each other by opposition; contrast.
    I have drawn some lines of Linger's character, on purpose to place it in counterview, or contrast with that of the other company.   --Swift.
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