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Oppugn vs Contumely - What's the difference?

oppugn | contumely |

As a verb oppugn

is (rare) to contradict or controvert; to oppose; to challenge or question the truth or validity of a given statement.

As a noun contumely is

offensive and abusive language or behaviour; scorn, insult.

oppugn

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • (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

    • Related terms

    * impugn * pugnacious * repugnant

    Derived terms

    * oppugnable * oppugnancy * oppugnant * oppugner

    Anagrams

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    contumely

    English

    Noun

  • Offensive and abusive language or behaviour; scorn, insult.
  • * :
    • For who would beare the Whips and Scornes of time, The Oppressors wrong, the poore mans Contumely [...].
  • * 1857 , , Volume the Second, page 19 (ISBN 1857150570)
    • She had been subjected to contumely and cross-questoning and ill-usage through the whole evening.
  • * 1914 , (Grace Livingston Hill), The Best Man :
    • What scorn, what contumely , would be his!
  • * 1953 , (James Strachey), translating Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams , Avon Books, p. 178:
    • If this picture of the two psychical agencies and their relation to the consciousness is accepted, there is a complete analogy in political life to the extraordinary affection which I felt in my dream for my friend R., who was treated with such contumely during the dream's interpretation.
  • * 1976 , (Robert Nye), Falstaff :
    • I could think of no words adequate to the occasion. So I belched. Not out of contumely , you understand. It was a sympathetic belch, a belch of brotherhood.