oppugnancy
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From oppugnant + -cy. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.
Noun
[edit]oppugnancy (countable and uncountable, plural oppugnancies)
- The act of oppugning; opposition; resistance
- c. 1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii]:
- Take but degree away, untune that string,
And, hark, what discord follows! each thing meets
In mere oppugnancy […]