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.
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noun.
The repetition of a word in an opposing sense.
noun.
Antanaclasis
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Hyponym
Words that are more specific
antanaclasis