Meaning of oppugn | Babel Free

Definitions

To contradict or controvert; to oppose; to challenge or question the truth or validity of a given statement.

rare, transitive

Examples

“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?”

“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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