- ref-hvörf
- n. pl. a kind of equivocation which consisted in pairing off words of opposite bearing, as ‘hot, cold,’ ‘water, fire,’ Edda (Ht.) 17–23.COMPDS: refhvarfabróðir, refhvarfaháttr.
An Icelandic-English dictionary. Richard Cleasby and Gudbrand Vigfusson. 1874.