oppugnancy

How to use oppugnancy in a sentence

• He indeed pushed himself into the front place by dint of copious verbosity, and militant oppugnancy.

  Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 101, November 7, 1891 | Various

• The principle of decomposition which it represented, and with which it was inextricably entangled, necessarily implied oppugnancy.

  History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, Volume II (of 2) | John William Draper

• O surer than suspicion's hundred eyes Is that fine sense, which, to the pure in heart, By mere oppugnancy of their own goodness.

  Auricular Confession and Popish Nunneries | William Hogan