oppugnancy
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Late Latin oppugnantia or formed anew from oppugnant + -cy.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]oppugnancy (countable and uncountable, plural oppugnancies)
- (now rare, higher register) The act of oppugning; opposition; resistance
- c. 1602, 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]:
- Take but degree away, untune that string,
And, hark, what discord follows! each thing meets
In mere oppugnancy […]
References
[edit]- ^ “Oppugnancy” in John Walker, A Critical Pronouncing Dictionary […] , London: Sold by G. G. J. and J. Robinſon, Paternoſter Row; and T. Cadell, in the Strand, 1791, →OCLC.
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