oppugn

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Also, g before n, as gnat, gnaw, gnarl, gnome, gnash, reign, deign, sign, consign, assign, design, condign, benign, impugn, oppugn, arraign, campaign.

From Guide to the Kindergarten and Intermediate Class and Moral Culture of Infancy. by Mann, Mary E.

Say, could not you twins, now, once come forward and speak as petition-masters-general in the halls of the Diet, or, as magistri sententiarum, oppugn one another within the walls of the universities on Commencement days?

From Titan: A Romance v. 1 (of 2) by Richter, Jean Paul Friedrich

If nothing can oppugn love, 385 And virtue invious ways can prove, What may he not confide to do That brings both love and virtue too?

From Hudibras by Butler, Samuel

A skeptic can only doubt, never oppugn the gospel.

From The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, May, 1880 by Walker, Aaron

Either, therefore, he who oppugns incorporeal quality seems also to oppugn unqualified matter; or separating the one from the other, he mutually parts them both.

From Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies by Plutarch