Definition of "countermovement" []

• A movement in opposition, or retaliation to another (noun)

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• "The figure most heavily targeted in countermovement tirades against the EAM project, and who seemed to embody its worst excesses, was the adartissa."
• "(DSE Bulletin, 7 July 1949) 52This special role of women fuelled the abuse they received in countermovement propaganda."
• "In a small countermovement to the main drive of assimilation, some assimilated Jews regarded the Eastern Jew—and the East in general—as more soulful and genuine than the Western Jew and the West."