oppugnancy

Example Sentences

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His not trying his improved scull-cap is an exquisite trait of human character, founded on the oppugnancy of the soul in such a state to any disturbance by doubt of its own broodings.

From Literary Remains, Volume 1 by Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

Let it be said that her powers of antagonism at times were not sufficiently restrained—how, without such oppugnancy, could she have stood forth for unpopular truths?

From Harriet Martineau by Miller, Florence Fenwick

There seems a mere oppugnancy of nature between the two, and yet both were, in different ways, the dupes of their own imaginations.

From Among My Books First Series by Lowell, James Russell

He indeed pushed himself into the front place by dint of copious verbosity, and militant oppugnancy.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, November 7, 1891 by Various

Sunder it Thou, who all behold'st so clear, Nor heed the stubborn will's oppugnancy.

From The Century of Columbus by Walsh, James J.