oppugnant

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He is no boxer as Tunney was a boxer, but he is an oppugnant fighter with a fine disregard for other people's punches.

From Time Magazine Archive

Of course all this effect of oppugnant economical interests is under the guidance of the directors of evolution, who generally have their human servants to masquerade as characters widely different from the true.

From The Brothers' War by Reed, John Calvin

They have looked forward rather than backward, have tacitly acknowledged the reality of change, the irreducible pluralism of nature, and the genuineness of the activities, oppugnant or harmonizing, between the items of the Cosmic.

From Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude by Bode, Boyd H.

The ability to think has proved itself oppugnant to, and destructive of, the reckless desire to worship, characteristic of semi-barbarism.

From Theological Essays by Bradlaugh, Charles

There have been, from the earliest period of the world, two different, and oppugnant, doctrines of man—his place, rights, duties and relations.

From Conflict of Northern and Southern Theories of Man and Society Great Speech, Delivered in New York City by Beecher, Henry Ward