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And sometimes a name employs what the Greeks called antiphrasis.

Besides all the fine things above described in my uncle's garden, there was also a rather unpleasant pavilion, which he had entitled the Délices, doubtless by antiphrasis.

The antiphrasis, or the broad flout, when we deride by flat contradiction, antithetically calling a dwarf a giant; or addressing a black woman, “In sooth ye are a fair one!”

Instances of antiphrasis in the names given to black slaves are very common.

Now, they were taunted with their very name, as having been bestowed upon them "by antiphrasis," i.e. by contraries.