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Repugn vs Oppugn - What's the difference?

repugn | oppugn |

As verbs the difference between repugn and oppugn

is that repugn is to oppose or resist while oppugn is to contradict or controvert; to oppose; to challenge or question the truth or validity of a given statement.

repugn

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • (archaic) To oppose or resist

    • Quotations

    * (English Citations of "repugn")

    Derived terms

    * repugnance * repugnancy * repugnant

    Related terms

    * impugn * pugilism * pugnacious

    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

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