[COUNTER- 3.] A movement in opposition; a contrary movement.
1818. Todd, Countermovement, a manner of moving in opposition to another movement; chiefly, perhaps, a military term.
1866. Geo. Eliot, F. Holt, xxxiii. Where there is no strong counter-movement, any proposition to do something unspecified stimulates stupid curiosity.
1882–3. Schaff, Encycl. Relig. Knowl., I. 705. This first counter-movement from the south, against the stream … from Central Asia.
