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English
Etymology
From oppugnant + -cy.
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Noun
oppugnancy (countable and uncountable, plural oppugnancies)
- The act of oppugning; opposition; resistance
c. 1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii]:Take but degree away, untune that string,
And, hark, what discord follows! each thing meets
In mere oppugnancy […]
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