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opponency|əˈpəʊnənsɪ|
[f. opponent a. and n.: see -ency.]
1. The action of an opponent or of something opposing; antagonism, opposition.
1727Bailey, Opponency, opposition. 1826J. Gilchrist Lecture Pref. 4 Which affinity might have been assisted..by the very nature of the opponency to be contended with. 1834New Monthly Mag. XL. 402 A fierce and unyielding opponency is rising upon the point between manufacture and agriculture. 1857J. W. Donaldson Chr. Orthod. 256 ‘Oppositions of science falsely so called’ ..(i.e. opponencies of the misnamed Gnosis).
2. The action or position of the opponent in an academical disputation as an exercise for a degree. (Cf. opponent B. 1.) Obs. exc. Hist.
1730–6Bailey (folio), Opponency, the maintaining a contrary argument. 1767J. Balguy Let. to Parr 14 Feb. in Parr's Wks. (1828) VII. 177 Colston has kept a third opponency in the schools with a perquam. 1841Peacock Stat. Cambr. 9 When they had kept..two opponencies..they were presented..as candidates for admission ad respondendum quæstioni. 1892A. G. Little Grey Friars Oxf. (O.H.S.) iii. 50 We have no means of checking them [figures] with regard to opponency [for the B.D. degree]. |