opposer

"Toutes mes fantaisies sont bandes pour m'opposer la grandeur des Espagnols," etc.

This good man has since become an earnest anti-suffragist and opposer of the movement for the higher education of women.

He held no office during William's reign, and is described by Macky as "always a great opposer" of the administration.

From that time he became a prominent politician—an advocate of equal rights—a stern opposer of British wrongs.

At manhood he became a prominent opposer to the innovations of the British ministers upon the chartered rights of Americans.