antimetabole

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

ANTIMETAB'OLE, noun antimetab'oly. [Gr. against, and mutation.] In rhetoric, a setting of two things in opposition to each other; as, an honorable action may be attended with labor, but the labor is soon past, and the honor is immortal.
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