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Counterpart vs Monstrance - What's the difference?

counterpart | monstrance |

As nouns the difference between counterpart and monstrance

is that counterpart is either of two parts that fit together, or complement one another while monstrance is an ornamental, often precious receptacle, either open or with a transparent cover, in which the sacramental bread is placed for veneration.

counterpart

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • Either of two parts that fit together, or complement one another.
    • ''Those brass knobs and their hollow counterparts interlock perfectly
  • * {{quote-news, year=2012, date=November 7, author=Matt Bai, title=Winning a Second Term, Obama Will Confront Familiar Headwinds, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=Mr. Obama never found a generational counterpart among conservatives in Congress like Paul D. Ryan or Eric Cantor; instead, there was a mutual animosity.}}
  • (legal) A duplicate of a legal document.
  • One which resembles another
  • One which has corresponding functions or characteristics.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2011 , date=November 12 , author= , title=International friendly: England 1-0 Spain , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=England's attacking impetus was limited to one shot from Lampard that was comfortably collected by keeper Iker Casillas, but for all Spain's domination of the ball his England counterpart Joe Hart was unemployed.}}

    Synonyms

    * equivalent * opposite number * pendant

    Related terms

    * counterbalance * counterpoint * countersign * counterweight * partner

    monstrance

    English

    (wikipedia monstrance)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An ornamental, often precious receptacle, either open or with a transparent cover, in which the sacramental bread is placed for veneration.
  • * 1890 , Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray , Chapter 11:
    • He loved to kneel down on the cold marble pavement and watch the priest, in his stiff flowered dalmatic, slowly and with white hands moving aside the veil of the tabernacle, or raising aloft the jewelled, lantern-shaped monstrance with that pallid wafer that at times, one would fain think, is indeed the "panis caelestis," the bread of angels, or, robed in the garments of the Passion of Christ, breaking the Host into the chalice and smiting his breast for his sins.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1935, author=
    • , title=The Norwich Victims , chapter=7/2 citation , passage=Sir Oswald had done pretty well during the war out of his timber, and there had been no death duties to pay for many years, not since the old man had died. But there was no doubt that the shoe was beginning to pinch. He had been obliged to sell that Spanish monstrance in '30, or was it '31?}}

    Synonyms

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