| 单词 |
oppugner |
| 释义 |
oppugner|əˈpjuːnə(r)|
[f. oppugn + -er1.]
One who oppugns; an assailant, opposer, opponent.
1535G. Browne to Ld. Privy Seal in Hist. Coll. Ch. Irel. (1681) 2 Your humble Servant..hath endeavoured..to procure the Nobility and Gentry of this Nation to due obedience, in owning of his Highness their supream Head as well Spiritual as Temporal, and do find much oppugning therein, especially by my Brother Armagh, who hath been the main oppugner. 1599Sandys Europæ Spec. (1632) 217–8 The Græcians are..perpetuall oppugners of the Papall right and authority. 1641Earl of Monmouth tr. Biondi's Civil Warres v. 161 Whilest the oppugners and defendors were in their chiefest heate, the Lord Talbot came thither with the Lord Scales and 1800 Souldiers. 1791Bentham Panopt. 130 [They would] find more advocates among the patrons, than among the oppugners, of that measure. 1853Merivale Rom. Rep. i. (1867) 10 The tribuneship..afforded..a ground of vantage to the oppugners of rank and authority. |
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