Noah Webster
Antistasis
ANTIS'TASIS, noun [Gr. Opposite, and station.]
In oratory, the defense of an action from the consideration that if it had been omitted, something worse would have happened.
ANTIS'TASIS, noun [Gr. Opposite, and station.]
In oratory, the defense of an action from the consideration that if it had been omitted, something worse would have happened.