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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of oppugn.

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Examples

  • Averroes oppugns all spirits and supreme powers; of late

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • 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.

    Essays and Miscellanies 2004

  • For he oppugns himself, one while commanding that the science concerning God should be taken last and for a conclusion, as being therefore also called [Greek omitted], and again, another while saying that this is to be learned together with the very first.

    Essays and Miscellanies 2004

  • When you apply for a credit card the bank will usually inquire you oppugns regarding your former credit lines.

    Credit card information pphillip 2010

  • When you apply for a credit card the bank will usually inquire you oppugns regarding your former credit lines.

    Credit card information pphillip 2010

  • "I take it," Justice Patterson said in charging the jury, "to be a clear position that if a legislative act oppugns a constitutional principle the former must give way and be rejected on the score of repugnance.

    The American Judiciary Simeon E. Baldwin 1883

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