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1611.  Florio, Contradistintióne, a counterdistinction.

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1653.  H. More, Antid. Ath., I. iii. (1712), 13. I say fully and absolutely Perfect, in counterdistinction to such Perfection as is not full and absolute. Ibid. (1681), Exp. Dan., vi. 227. By Many we do not understand a certain number in counterdistinction to All.

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