countercry
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Definition of countercry
: a cry made in response to another cry The cry had been raised to save the splendid pile, and the counter-cry … to save it from being saved. —Henry James All through the South and West, Elvis is packing theaters … and filling letters-to-the-editor columns with cries of alarm and, from adolescents, counter-cries of adulation. —Time
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