Agin vs Agon - What's the difference?
agin | agon |
* 1859 , (Charles Dickens), "A Tale of Two Cities", in (All the Year Round) , vol. 1, p.
** At which juncture, he exclaimed, in a voice of dire exasperation : “Bust me, if she ain't at it agin !”
* 1859 , (w, Harper's New Monthly Magazine) , vol. 19, p.
** [The Court] said: "Young man, this ere Court is satisfied that there ain't nothin' in the laws of Vermont agin''' tippin' over a churn full of sap. [...] But I want ye should remember one thing—that this ere Court has made up his mind that it's a very naughty trick, and it's a shame that there's so many maple-trees in the State, and no law '''agin tippin' over sap."
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 agin
is .As a preposition agin
is .As a proper noun agon is
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(wikipedia agon) (en-noun)- “Freud's originality stemmed from his aggression and ambition in his agon with biology” (Harold Bloom).
