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Resister

noun
1.
Someone who systematically obstructs some action that others want to take.  Synonyms: obstructer, obstructionist, obstructor, thwarter.
2.
Someone who offers opposition.  Synonyms: adversary, antagonist, opponent, opposer.  Antonym: agonist.



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"Resister" Quotes from Famous Books



... being led astray by a too servile adherence to any system.—WOLOWSKI. No system can be anything more than a history, not in the order of impression, but in the order of arrangement by analogy.—DAVY, Memoirs, 68. Avec der materiaux si nombreux et si importants, il fallait bien du courage pour resister a la tentation de faire un systeme. De Saussure eut ce courage, et nous en ferons le dernier trait et le trait principal de son eloge.—CUVIER, ...
— Lectures on Modern history • Baron John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton

... teaching, willingly ignorant of the truth that Christianity, while it will not force the conscience by other than spiritual weapons, as "compulsory" arbitration might, distinctly recognizes the sword as the resister and remedier of evil in ...
— Lessons of the war with Spain and other articles • Alfred T. Mahan

... opposition to the will of another, rather than an attempt to realize a positive policy. The preceding section dealt with its counterpart, "non-resistance," which has a neutral connotation, and implies that the non-resister is not involved in the immediate struggle, and that for him the refusal to inflict injury upon anyone is a higher value than the achievement of any policy of his own, either ...
— Introduction to Non-Violence • Theodore Paullin

... today with which I will be able to destroy large numbers of foes. I will slay in battle that scorcher of enemies, that mighty warrior accomplished in weapons, that fierce bowman of immeasurable energy, that cruel and terrible hero, that great resister of enemies, viz., Dhananjaya. The immeasurable Ocean, that lord of all waters, rusheth with fierce impetuosity for overwhelming innumerable creatures. The continent, however, holds and checks him. Today, in this world, I will resist in fight the son of Kunti, that foremost of all ...
— The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 - Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 • Unknown

... do you mean?" answered Basil, staring also. "Have you turned Puritan or Passive Resister, or ...
— The Club of Queer Trades • G. K. Chesterton



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