Agen vs Agon - What's the difference?
agen | agon |
*1832-1837 , John Clare, Approaching Night
*:O, how I long to be agen
*:That poor and independent man,
*:With labour's lot from morn to night
*:And books to read at candle light;
A struggle or contest; conflict; especially between the protagonist and antagonist in a literary work.
An intellectual conflict or apparent competition of ideas.
A contest in ancient Greece, as in athletics or music, in which prizes were awarded.
A two-player boardgame played with a hexagonally-tiled board, popular in Victorian times. Also known as queen's guard.
As an adverb agen
is .As a preposition agen
is .As a proper noun agon is
.agen
English
Adverb
(-)agon
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Noun
(wikipedia agon) (en-noun)- “Freud's originality stemmed from his aggression and ambition in his agon with biology” (Harold Bloom).