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noun

Opponent n.

One who opposes; an adversary; an antagonist; a foe.

One who opposes in a disputation, argument, or other verbal controversy; specifically, one who attacks some thesis or proposition, in distinction from the respondent, or defendant, who maintains it. "How becomingly does Philopolis exercise his office, and seasonably commit the opponent with the respondent, like a long-practiced moderator!"

Synonyms: Antagonist; opposer; foe. See Adversary.

adjective

Opponent adj. Situated in front; opposite; hence, opposing; adverse; antagonistic.

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Etymology of 'Opponent'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... rate it was a pleasure to know such an honorable fellow was to be an opponent, and that the Marshall boys were so utterly opposed to any form of double-dealing or trickery, ...

— Jack Winters' Gridiron Chums • Mark Overton

... the Confessor, (Edward,) and five marks of gold presented to Edith, the Fair, encouraged her to aid the bishop, and to exercise her gentle influence in his favor. Alfric, with equal wisdom, withdrew from prosecuting the hopeless cause, in which his opponent might possess an advocate in the royal judge, and a friend in the king's consort. Both parties. therefore, found it desirable to come to an agreement." 1 Palgrave's Rise and ...

— An Essay on the Trial By Jury • Lysander Spooner

... been done to remedy these evils, which Dickens set forth with such power in his novel of "Bleak House." At one time the prospect of reform seemed so utterly hopeless that it was customary for a prize fighter, when he had got his opponent's neck twisted under his arm, and held him absolutely helpless, to declare that he had ...

— The Leading Facts of English History • D.H. Montgomery

... Mill, James Mill and Stewart represented opposite poles of philosophic thought. I shall have to consider this dictum hereafter. On the points already noticed Stewart must be regarded as an ally rather than an opponent of the Locke and Hume tradition. Like them he appeals unhesitatingly to experience, and cannot find words strong enough to express his contempt for 'ontological' and scholastic methods. His 'intuitions' are so far very harmless things, which ...

— The English Utilitarians, Volume I. • Leslie Stephen

... converts from the State, as from all earthly things. To this the Genevan minister had successfully replied by quoting Christian teachings on the subject at issue. But Buonaparte fiercely accuses the pastor of neither having understood, nor even read, "Le Contrat Social": he hurls at his opponent texts of Scripture which enjoin obedience to the laws: he accuses Christianity of rendering men slaves to an anti-social tyranny, because its priests set up an authority in opposition to civil laws; and as for Protestantism, it propagated discords between ...

— The Life of Napoleon I (Volumes, 1 and 2) • John Holland Rose

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