Antistasis

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. In rhetoric, the justification of an action by the argument that if it had been omitted something worse would have happened.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. The repetition of a word in an opposing sense.
  • noun. Antanaclasis.
  • Hyponym
    Words that are more specific