oppugnant
Americanadjective
adjective
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Etymology
Origin of oppugnant
1505–15; < Latin oppugnant- (stem of oppugnāns ), present participle of oppugnāre to oppose. See oppugn, -ant
Example Sentences
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He is no boxer as Tunney was a boxer, but he is an oppugnant fighter with a fine disregard for other people's punches.
From Time Magazine Archive
They have looked forward rather than backward, have tacitly acknowledged the reality of change, the irreducible pluralism of nature, and the genuineness of the activities, oppugnant or harmonizing, between the items of the Cosmic.
From Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude by Boyd H. Bode
Rather let us set ourselves to do that for Christ which is most oppugnant to our natural feelings.
From Around The Tea-Table by T. De Witt (Thomas De Witt) Talmage
The tendency is even among Christians to depreciate that which goes on independent of themselves and in a way oppugnant to their personal taste.
From Around The Tea-Table by T. De Witt (Thomas De Witt) Talmage
He could have taken another, an oppugnant stand, as many a familiar confederate did.
From Abraham Lincoln's Cardinal Traits; A Study in Ethics, with an Epilogue Addressed to Theologians by Clark S. Beardslee
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