Opposition vs Witherward - What's the difference?
opposition | witherward |
The action of opposing or of being in conflict.
An opposite or contrasting position.
An opponent in some form of competition.
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(senseid)(politics) A political party or movement opposed to the party or government in power.
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(chess) A position in which the player on the move must yield with his king allowing his opponent to advance with his own king.
Adverse, contrary.
Opposite, opposing; hostile.
* 1852 , The whole works of King Alfred the Great :
Opposite; adversity, opposition; hostility
* 1850 , Henry Mills Alden, Harper's new monthly magazine: Volume 1, Issues 1-6 :
* 1912 , American Chemical Society, Journal of the American Chemical Society: Volume 34, Issues 1-6 :
* 1950 , Thomas Hardy, The mayor of Casterbridge :
As nouns the difference between opposition and witherward
is that opposition is the action of opposing or of being in conflict while witherward is opposite; adversity, opposition; hostility.As an adjective witherward is
adverse, contrary.As an adverb witherward is
contrary to, against.opposition
English
Noun
(en noun)Can China clean up fast enough?, passage=That worries the government, which fears that environmental activism could become the foundation for more general political opposition .}}
Antonyms
* appositionExternal links
* (wikipedia) ----witherward
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- [...] then appeared to me along the way by which I formerly came amid the darkness, as it were the brightness of a shining star, and the light was waxing more and more, and quickly hastening to me, and as soon as it came nigh me, then were scattered and away fled all the witherward ghosts, which formerly threatened me with their tongs, [...]
- at the witherward side of the year
Noun
(-)- Nor, although be sung the "mighty stream of tendency" of this wondrous age, did he ever launch his poetic craft upon it, nor seem to see the witherward of its swift and awful stress.
- Nevertheless, he cannot be seriously opposed to scientific research as distinguished from technical research for the next four chapters deal with such theoretical subjects as "the question of the atom," "the witherward of matter," "the chemical interpretation of life" and "the beginning of things."
- They were those of the song he had sung when he arrived years before at the Three Mariners, a poor young man, adventuring for life and fortune, and scarcely knowing witherward : [...]
