[COUNTER- 2, 3, 8.]
a. A passion opposed to or the opposite of another. † b. Passion or suffering corresponding to that felt by another. † c. An outburst of passion against something.
1597. Daniel, Civ. Wars, VIII. lxxviii. When this great fight of counter-passions had been throughly try’d.
1609. Bp. W. Barlow, Answ. Nameless Cath., 365. These sections conclusorie, are rather Counter-passions of Lunacie, then artificiall closes of an Epilogue.
1630. Lennard, trans. Charron’s Wisd., I. xx. heading, Of Covetousness and her counter-passion.
c. 1630. Jackson, Creed, VI. xxxiii. Wks. V. 520. Punished according to the rule of retaliation or counterpassion.
1793. W. Roberts, Looker-on, No. 81 (1794), III. 291. The prevalence of some counter-passion.
