[COUNTER- 3, 6.] A step in opposition, or in the opposite direction.
1720. Mead, Pref. Disc. Plague (1744), p. xxxvii. (Jod.). Such Counter-Steps will happen in a Government, where there is too much of Faction, and too little of Public Spirit.
1721. C. King, Brit. Merch., II. 50. They have been making some little Counter-steps to this.
1864. Daily Tel., 28 May, 4/5. A counter-step against the project of compromise.
