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opponency en · NOUN

Etymology

From opponent + -cy?

Meanings

1. (UK) The act of opening an academic disputation; the proposition of objections to a tenet, as an exercise for a degree.
   • The chairman of the committee will be very glad to give you the opportunity to express your views, whether of proponency or opponency. 1935, “letter”, in Department of science, art and literature: Hearings before the Committee on Patents, page 112:
   • This is only a Trick to turn off the Opponency 1699, Mr. Chandler, A True Narrative of the Portsmouth Disputation:

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