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Definition of Oppugning
1. oppugn [v] - See also: oppugn
Lexicographical Neighbors of Oppugning
Literary usage of Oppugning
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Account of the Life and Writings of Sir Thomas Craig of Riccarton by Patrick Fraser Tytler (1823)
"... he was afterwards promoted to the chair in the royal auditory t, and there
delivered his lectures, oppugning the authority and doctrines of Aristotle. ..."
2. The Works of Orestes A. Brownson by Orestes Augustus Brownson, Henry Francis Brownson (1884)
"... when they richte her rii , . by oppugning their »objecté, whom they are bound
to ig that she ako they mar be. or t ' • over, ..."
3. An Historical Introduction to the Marprelate Tracts: A Chapter in the by William Pierce (1909)
"... of Gods glory.1 Wherein you by oppugning that trueth which out of the worde
of God I had sette down.2 I am sory that you whom I reverence should be the ..."
4. The Harvard Classics by Charles William Eliot (1910)
"... and flies hard by honey, and did frustrate justice, rebel against his natural
lord and king; for he did so by oppugning his just commandments; ..."
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