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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology | 1996 | | Â© The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology 1996, originally published by Oxford University Press 1996. (Hide copyright information) Copyright

antithesis XV. — late L. — Gr. antíthesis, f. ANTI- + tithénai set, place (cf. THESIS).
So antithetic XVII, antithetical XVI. ult. — Gr. antithetikós.

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