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Webster 1913 Edition


Oppugner

Op-pugn′er

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Noun.
One who opposes or attacks; that which opposes.
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Webster 1828 Edition


Oppugner

OPPUGNER

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Noun.
oppu'ner. One who opposes or attacks; that which opposes.

Definition 2024


oppugner

oppugner

English

Noun

oppugner (plural oppugners)

  1. Someone who oppugns; an opponent.
    • 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, Bk.I, New York, 2001, p.168:
      Revenge and malice were as two violent oppugners on the one side; but honesty, religion, fear of God, withheld him on the other.

Latin

Verb

oppugner

  1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of oppugnō