counteraction (n.)
- amends
- atonement
- balancing
- challenge
- commutation
- compensation
- complaint
- contention
- contradiction
- contravention
- crosscurrent
- crossing
- defiance
- demur
- denial
- dispute
- dissent
- expiation
- fractiousness
- indemnification
- indemnity
- negation
- negativism
- objection
- obstinacy
- opposition
- protest
- reaction
- rebuff
- rebuttal
- recalcitrance
- recalcitrancy
- recompense
- rectification
- redress
- refractoriness
- refusal
- rejection
- reluctance
- remonstrance
- reparation
- repayment
- repulse
- repulsion
- resistance
- restitution
- retaliation
- revenge
- revolt
- satisfaction
- stand
- substitution
- traversal
- undercurrent
You had that action and counteraction which, in the natural and in the political world, from the reciprocal struggle of discordant powers draws out the harmony of the universe.
