Citations:oppugnance

English citations of oppugnance

Noun: "aversion; opposition"

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• 1775, Layman, Strictures, Miscellaneous and Comparative, on the Churches of Rome, England and Scotland, Dublin: A. Kilburn, pages 334–335:

  Power lodged absolutely by God, the Creator and Governor of the Universe, in the hands of Mortality, would really be an absurdity of the first magnitude; insomuch as, by constantly and unavoidably turning out despotic and tyrannical, it would daily and hourly rise up in oppugnance to Himself, his sovereign dominion and supreme administration; [...]

• 1849, “Whipple's Essays and Reviews”, in The American Whig Review, volume III, whole volume IX, New York, page 155:

  fire and water will peacefully submit to a pretty close juxtaposition, but discover an invincible oppugnance the moment one attempts to unite them

• 1859, Theodore Clapp, Theological Views, Boston: Abel Tompkins, page 347:

  More, they [sc. angels] look upon these dark doings [i.e. dishonesty, evasion and circumventing, and reckless indulgence; hate, envy, pride, malice, and ambition] with infinite oppugnance—an oppugnance as much greater than we can feel as heaven is higher than earth.

• 1872, Henry Norman Hudson, Shakespeare: His Life, Art, and Characters, vol. II., page 115:

  [the] minds [of the young people] being kept pure, and even furthered in the course of manhood, by an instinctive oppugnance to the shams and meannesses which beset their path.

• 1885, David Masson, Carlyle, personally and in his writings: two Edinburgh lectures, London: Macmillan, Lecture II., page 100:

  his vehement oppugnance throughout his whole life, and especially in his later life, to the modern faith in Democracy, the equality of all men in respect of natural and political rights, and government by suffrage and the representation of majorities.

• 1903, Ernest Crosby, “The Living Universe”, in Broad-cast, New York: Funk and Wagnalls, published 1905, pages 102–103:

  I know the secret of the universe. […] The universe is in love. […] It loves the lively birds and beasts and the strenuous men who feed on them and the beautiful microbes and tumors that feed on the men and most of all it loves the tremor and friction and oppugnance between its loves, and sets its teeth to the shock and thrill of them.

• 1917, Horace M. Kallen, “Value and Existence in Philosophy, Art, and Religion”, in Creative Intelligence: Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude, New York: Henry Holt, page 454:

  The visible world, being not as we want it, we imagine an unseen one that satisfies our want, declaring the visible one an illusion by its side. So we work a radical substitution of desiderates for actualities, of ideals for facts, of values for existences. Art alone acknowledges the actual relations between these contrasting pairs. Art alone so operates as in fact to convert their oppugnance into identity.

• 1977, S. M. L. Prachand, The Popular Upsurge and Fall of Congress, page 45:

  Their behaviour attracted a harsh oppugnance of public which was suppressed by use of police force.

• 2008, Roman Koropeckyj, Adam Mickiewicz: The Life of a Romantic, Cornell University Press, →ISBN, page 19:

  his […] oppugnance to the sociocultural backwardness still gripping Lithuania