oppugnancy
noun/əˈpʌɡnən(t)si/
Etymology Borrowed from Late Latin oppugnantia or formed anew from oppugnant + -cy.
1
Archaic The act of oppugning; opposition; resistance
Higher register
- Take but degree away, untune that string, And, hark, what discord follows! each thing meets In mere oppugnancy […]c. 1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii]:
- Related terms
- oppugnant