counter-namen.
rare.
A name used in opposition to the real or proper name.
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1856 W. E. Aytoun Bothwell (1857) 57 Wretch, villain, traitor, regicide—These are the counter-names For men whom fortune sets aside.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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n.1856- pre-acetabular
- pre-acknowledge
- pre-acknowledged
- pre-acquaint
- pre-acquaintance
- pre-acquainted
- pre-acquit
- pre-act
- pre-acting
- pre-action
- pre-adamic
- pre-adamite
- pre-adamitic
- pre-adamitical
- pre-adamitism
- pre-addressed
- pre-adjectival
- pre-adjunct
- pre-adjust
- pre-adjusted
- pre-admission
- pre-admit
- pre-admitted
- pre-adopt
- pre-adopted