counterpose

Early users of the term often counterpose it against aristocracy.

From The Guardian ● Apr. 18, 2018

But MacBird's basic flaw is that Playwright Garson is a frivolous, scattershot satirist who has no moral vision of her own to counterpose whatever might be regarded as evil in her characters.

From Time Magazine Archive

Things are what we in our own thought counterpose to ourselves who think them.

From The Reform of Education by Gentile, Giovanni

To the fighting "Holy Alliances" of the governments, we counterpose the brotherhood of the free spirits of the world!

From The Forerunners by Rolland, Romain

In contrast to Wife Guys like Tripp, the "Wife Didn't Approve" guy — or Anti-Wife Guy, as I call them — defines his identity as counterposed to his wife.

From Salon ● Nov. 25, 2019

To a civilization shaped by unappeasable human will and ambition Gandhi counterposed a civilization organized around self-limitation and ethical conduct.

From The New Yorker ● Oct. 15, 2018

But Vermont nurses know that the two issues are not counterposed: if the care of patients is to be valued at all, the providers of that care must themselves be valued and materially supported.

From Salon ● Jul. 22, 2018

Winters dutifully traces Shepard’s major themes: the mutability of identity counterposed against the taint of heredity, the blight of “progress” and the fatal consequences of our alienation from the land.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 27, 2017

To Watson and Crick, the double-helix model of DNA—with two complementary “yin-yang” strands counterposed against each other—instantly suggested a mechanism for replication.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

What holds the earth swinging in space is first, the great dynamic attraction to the sun, and then counterposing assertion of independence, singleness, which is polarized in the moon.

From Fantasia of the Unconscious by Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)