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Opposition   /ˌɑpəzˈɪʃən/   Listen
Opposition

noun
1.
The action of opposing something that you disapprove or disagree with.  Synonym: resistance.  "Despite opposition from the newspapers he went ahead"
2.
The relation between opposed entities.  Synonym: oppositeness.
3.
The act of hostile groups opposing each other.  Synonym: confrontation.  "The invaders encountered stiff opposition"
4.
A contestant that you are matched against.  Synonyms: opponent, opposite.
5.
A body of people united in opposing something.
6.
A direction opposite to another.
7.
An armed adversary (especially a member of an opposing military force).  Synonyms: enemy, foe, foeman.
8.
The major political party opposed to the party in office and prepared to replace it if elected.



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"Opposition" Quotes from Famous Books



... the Emperor confined, and she was proclaimed his successor; but the open intervention of the Allied Powers caused him to be returned to the throne. It is said that for ten years he has been an invalid. Can any one wonder, knowing the constant espionage and continual opposition to which he has been subjected? After two years' contemplating of the beauties of the court, Emperor Kwang Su was married, very much against his will, however (preferring another), to the niece of the Dowager Empress, the beautiful Yohonola; her photograph ...
— Travels in the Far East • Ellen Mary Hayes Peck

... measure, like our detention at the Depot, would involve a great loss of time, I proposed to myself again to divide the party, and to send Mr. Browne home with all the men, except Mr. Stuart and two others. I saw no objection to such a course, and certainly did not anticipate any opposition to it on the part of my companion. I resolved then, with a due regard to his state, to retrace my steps with all possible expedition; and, accordingly, directed that everything should be prepared for our ...
— Expedition into Central Australia • Charles Sturt

... it will be harder and harder for the upright business man to regard war as a legitimate means of high and speedy profits. War fortunes are losing caste every day. Even greed will some day hesitate before the overwhelming unpopularity and opposition which will meet the war profiteer. Business should be on the side of peace, because ...
— My Life and Work • Henry Ford

... journeyed wearily from court to court, and pleaded in vain to the sovereigns of Europe for aid to prosecute his great design. The marvel is that when door after door was closed against him, when all ears were deaf to his earnest importunities, when day by day the opposition to his views increased, when, weary and footsore, he was forced to beg a bit of bread and a cup of water for his fainting and famishing boy at the door of a Spanish convent, his reason did not give way, and his great heart ...
— Due South or Cuba Past and Present • Maturin M. Ballou

... Darwin, that of inundations by great floods, maintained by Professor H. D. Rogers and Sir George Mackenzie, that of glacial action, brought forward by myself, have been duly discussed with reference to this difficult case; all have found their advocates, all have met with warm opposition, and the matter still remains a mooted point; but the one of all these theories which shall stand the test of time and repeated examination and be eventually accepted will explain many a problem besides the one it was meant to solve, and lead to farther progress ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 80, June, 1864 • Various


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