Fromanti- +anti-.
anti-anti-
- Against opposition to.
1971, Francis X. Gannon, “Arthur F. Burns”, inBiographical Dictionary Of The Left, volume 2, Boston, Mass.: Western Islands,page259:He has been a trustee of Freedom House, a center foranti-anti-Communism with a membership of liberals, Socialists, do-gooders, Communist-fronters, and an occasional innocent.
2007,Milton Himmelfarb,Jews and Gentiles, New York: Encounter Books,→ISBN,page111:Chastising what is left of Christendom, some Christians now tend to be if not pro-neopagan then at leastanti-anti-neopagan.
2014 December 8,Christopher Caldwell, “French Curtains”, inWilliam Kristol, editor,The Weekly Standard, New York: Clarity Media Group,→ISSN,pages28–29:Zemmour’s reverence for Marchais makes his ownanti-anti-racism easier to define. It is not racism. It is a belief that France’s ruling class uses accusations of racism as a way of discrediting its class enemies, the better to impose on them a capitalism they have no familiarity with and no reason to want.
- (Can weverify(+) this sense?)(rare) Very opposed to.
According toWilliam Safire, usage of the prefix suggests at least tacit support for the idea conveyed by the word stem.[1] Ferenc Kiefer said that the prefix acts as an intensifier, meaning "very anti".[2]
- ^William Safire (2008), “Anti-anti”, inSafire's Political Dictionary[1], New York: Oxford University Press,→ISBN
- ^Adrienne Lehrer (1995), “Prefixes in English Word Formation”, inFolia Linguistica[2], volume29, numbers1-2,→DOI,→ISSN
