Definition of "counterview"

counterview

/ˈkaʊntə(ɹ)ˌvjuː/

noun
countable and uncountable, plural counterviews
1. (countable) An opposing viewpoint.
2. A posture in which two persons face each other.
  Quotations
  Within the Gates of Hell sate Sin and Death,In counterview
  1667, John Milton, “Book IX”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […]; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873,
  M. Peisse has ably advocated the counterview in his preface and appendix.
  1852, William Hamilton, Discussions on Philosophy and Literature, Education and University Reform
3. A position in which two dissimilar things illustrate each other by opposition; contrast.
  Quotations
  I have drawn ſome Lines of Sir John Linger's Character, the Derbyſhire Knight, on purpoſe to place it in Counter-view or Contraſt with that of the other Company […]
  1731 (date written), Simon Wagstaff [pseudonym; Jonathan Swift], “An Introduction to the Following Treatise”, in A Complete Collection of Genteel and Ingenious Conversation, […], London: […] B[enjamin] Motte […], published 1738, page lxi