"countercuff" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1941, George Sampson, The Concise Cambridge History of English Literature, page 299",
          "text": "In Poetaster, or The Arraignment (printed 1602) Jonson gave a countercuff to his antagonists by ridiculing Marston as Crispinus and Dekker as Demetrius, and presenting himself as Horace.",
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          "ref": "1950, George Gregory Smith, “Introduction”, in Elizabethan Critical Essays, volume 1, page xxix",
          "text": "Gosson's plea that Poetry makes men effeminate directly inspires Sidney's memorable countercuff that it, above all things, is the companion of camps⁶.",
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          "ref": "1973, The Listener, volume 89, BBC, page 218",
          "text": "As a countercuff to visual media, he lays down the ‘general principle’ that arts which leave the imagination something to do excel those that minister to passive consumers.",
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          "ref": "1982, E. A. J. Honigmann, Shakespeare's Impact on His Contemporaries, page 118",
          "text": "That could be Jonson's countercuff to Polixenes' speech ('The art itself is nature'), and to Mrs Taleporter's true ballads.",
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          "ref": "2000, “Notes and News”, in The Gissing Journal, volume XXXVI, number 3, page 38",
          "text": "William Levy has sent a countercuff which we dare not print, but if he publishes it in another journal, we promise to give the reference.",
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        "(rare, archaic) A polemical response."
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