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/ˌkaʊntəɹəˈtɹaktɪv/ · adjective
(rare) Acting as a counterattraction; counterattracting..
In the struggle against the influence of such revelations, the counterattractive force of appeals to consider British interests was weakening.
He saw the relations among prices of land, corn, flour, and bread as dependent on “growth of the power of association” which makes “circulation” more rapid “as the attractive and counterattractive forces increase in their intensity.”
Brian Harrison rechnet in Drink and the Victorians die MH zurecht zu den “counterattractive influences which fostered sobriety during the 19th Century”¹⁰⁰ und betont wie schon die MH-Manager, daß die MH keine rein männliche Domäne war wie das Pub, sondern Familienunterhaltung bot und damit eine wichtige Forderung der Temperenzler erfüllte.
As John Rule has observed, in this context Methodism must be considered a counterattractive, as well as a counteractive, force, for it provided its own alternative, “improving,” “respectable” recreations, which were assimilated into the calendars of local society.⁵⁵
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Counterattractive means (rare) Acting as a counterattraction; counterattracting..
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In the struggle against the influence of such revelations, the counterattractive force of appeals to consider British interests was weakening.
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