Inveigh vs Oppose - What's the difference?
inveigh | oppose |
* 1860 , (William Cullen Bryant), letter, 14 Sep 1860:
* 1989 , (Jack Vance), Madouc :
* 1999 , (Will Hutton), The Guardian , 26 Sep 1999:
* 2011 , Elizabeth Drew, "What were they thinking?", New York Review of Books , 18 Aug 2011:
(obsolete) To draw in or away; to entice, inveigle.
* c. 1680 , (Samuel Butler), Genuine Remains :
To attempt to stop the progression of; to resist or antagonize by physical means, or by arguments, etc.; to contend against; to confront; to resist; to withstand.
To object to.
To present or set up in opposition; to pose.
* John Locke
* 1839 , Philip Meadows Taylor, Confessions of a Thug
To place in front of, or over against; to set opposite; to exhibit.
* Shakespeare
To compete with; to strive against.
* Shakespeare
As verbs the difference between inveigh and oppose
is that inveigh is while oppose is .As a noun oppose is
opposite.As an adjective oppose is
opposite.inveigh
English
Verb
(en verb)- I saw Mr. Cairns yesterday. He inveighed at great length at what he called Mr. Willis's neglect of his children, saying he had just discovered that they got no whortleberries and no fish, and that he was just beginning to send them those things.
- Noblemen loyal to King Milo inveighed upon him, until at last he sent off dispatches to King Audry and King Aillas, alerting them to the peculiar rash of forays, raids and provocations current along the Lyonesse border.
- Only last week, three aggressively written pamphlets crossed my desk inveighing against the euro.
- After the President, in a press conference in late June, inveighed against tax breaks for corporate jets, the industry quickly insisted that such a change would cost jobs.
- He is a Spirit, that inveighs away a Man from himself, undertakes great Matters for him, and after fells him for a Slave.
Derived terms
* inveigher * inveighingoppose
English
Verb
(oppos)- to oppose''' the king in battle; to '''oppose a bill in Congress
- There is still time to oppose this plan.
- Many religious leaders oppose cloning humans.
- They are opposed to any form of hierarchy.
- I may oppose my single opinion to his.
- [T]hree walls had been left standing, with large intervals between each; and they would certainly oppose a most formidable interruption to an invader.
- Her grace sat down / In a rich chair of state; opposing freely / The beauty of her person to the people.
- to oppose a rival for a prize
- I am too weak / To oppose your cunning.