Controverse vs Oppugn - What's the difference?
controverse | oppugn |
(obsolete) Controversy.
* 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , IV.4:
(obsolete) to controvert
(rare) To contradict or controvert; to oppose; to challenge or question the truth or validity of a given statement.
* 1761 (Laurence Sterne), , volume III, page 180, London: R. and J. Dodsley.
*:It is for the same reason, that is, because 'tis all comprehended in Slawkenbergius, that I say nothing likewise of Scroderus (Andrea) who all the world knows, set himself to oppugn Prignitz with great violence, ---- proving it in his own way, first logically, and then by a series of stubborn facts
As verbs the difference between controverse and oppugn
is that controverse is while oppugn is (rare) to contradict or controvert; to oppose; to challenge or question the truth or validity of a given statement.As an adjective controverse
is controversial.controverse
English
Noun
(en noun)- So fitly now here commeth next in place, / After the proofe of prowesse ended well, / The controverse of beauties soveraine grace […].
