oppugnant

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He is no boxer as Tunney was a boxer, but he is an oppugnant fighter with a fine disregard for other people's punches.

From Time Magazine Archive

He would not object to the publishing of "Peter Bell" or the "Salisbury Plain", singly; but to the publishing of his poems in two volumes, he is decisively repugnant and oppugnant.

From Biographia Epistolaris, Volume 1. by Turnbull, A.

He goes on, "Cur clandestinis consiliis nos oppugnant? cur de perfugis nostris copias comparant contra nos?"

From Cicero's Brutus or History of Famous Orators; also His Orator, or Accomplished Speaker. by Jones, E.

They have looked forward rather than backward, have tacitly acknowledged the reality of change, the irreducible pluralism of nature, and the genuineness of the activities, oppugnant or harmonizing, between the items of the Cosmic.

From Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude by Bode, Boyd H.

Rather let us set ourselves to do that for Christ which is most oppugnant to our natural feelings.

From Around The Tea-Table by Talmage, T. De Witt (Thomas De Witt)