Dictionary

oppugnancy en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /əˈpʌɡnən(t)si/

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin oppugnantia or formed anew from oppugnant + -cy.

Meanings

1. (archaic, countable, qualifier:higher register, uncountable) The act of oppugning; opposition; resistance
   • Take but degree away, untune that string, And, hark, what discord follows! each thing meets In mere oppugnancy […] c. 1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii]:

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oppugnant