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Etymology
From Middle French oppugner Latin oppugno (“fight against, to attack, assail, assault, storm, besiege, war with”).
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oppugn (third-person singular simple present oppugns, present participle oppugning, simple past and past participle oppugned)
- (transitive, rare) To contradict or controvert; to oppose; to challenge or question the truth or validity of a given statement.
1662 (indicated as 1663), [Samuel Butler], “”, in Hudibras. The First and Second Parts. , London: John Martyn and Henry Herringman, , published 1678; republished in A[lfred] R[ayney] Waller, editor, Hudibras: Written in the Time of the Late Wars, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: University Press, 1905, →OCLC:If nothing can oppugne love,
And virtue invious ways can prove,
What may not he confide to do
That brings both love and virtue too?
1761, Laurence Sterne, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, volume III, London: R. and J. Dodsley, page 180:It is for the same reason, that is, because 'tis all comprehended in Slawkenbergius, that I say nothing likewise of Scroderus (Andrea) who all the world knows, set himself to oppugn Prignitz with great violence, ---- proving it in his own way, first logically, and then by a series of stubborn facts
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