16 April 2018

oppugnant

[uh-puhg-nuh nt]

adjective

1. opposing; antagonistic; contrary.

Origin of oppugnant

Latin

1505-1515; < Latin oppugnant- (stem of oppugnāns), present participle of oppugnāre to oppose. See oppugn, -ant

Related forms

oppugnancy, noun

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He could have taken another, an oppugnant stand, as many a familiar confederate did.
Abraham Lincoln’s Cardinal Traits;
Clark S. Beardslee

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Today’s quote

Heroes are not known by the loftiness of their carriage; the greatest braggarts are generally the merest cowards.

– Jean-Jacques Rousseau

On this day

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16 April 73AD – The Great Jewish Revolt ends when the fortress Masada falls to the Romans.

16 April 1850 – death of Marie Tussaud, French-English sculptor, founder of Madam Tussaud’s wax museum. Born 1 December 1761.

16 April 1917 – Vladimir Lenin returns to Petrograd, Russia following exile in Switzerland.

16 April 1947 – Bernard Baruch coins the term ‘Cold War’ to describe the relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union.

16 April 1990 – Dr Jack Kevorkian, (euthanasia activist, otherwise known as the Doctor of Death) participates in his first assisted suicide.