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pugnacious, a.|pʌgˈneɪʃəs|
[f. L. pugnāx, -āci- combative (f. pugn-āre to fight, f. pugn-us fist) + -ous: see -acious.]
Disposed to fight; given to fighting; quarrelsome; contentious.
1642H. More Song of Soul iv. xiv, Plato affirms Idees; But Aristotle with his pugnacious race As idle figments stifly them denies. 1776Pennant Zool. (ed. 4) I. 328 [The whitethroat] A shy and wild bird..; seems of a pugnatious disposition. 1877Mrs. Oliphant Makers Flor. i. 10 These pugnacious Florentines, whose personal feuds and hatreds..were infinitely more real and vivid.
Hence pugˈnaciously adv., in a pugnacious manner; pugˈnaciousness, pugnacity.
1681H. More Exp. Dan. iii. 64 The strength..and pugnaciousness of the Ram well represent Cyrus and his Successours. 1829Palmerston Opinions & Policy (1852) 102 If the nation is overflowing with so much pugnaciousness. 1847Webster, Pugnaciously. 1871E. P. Whipple Success & its Conditions 69 A politician weakly and amiably in the right is no match for [one] tenaciously and pugnaciously in the wrong. 1875Jowett Plato (ed. 2) III. 334 We valiantly and pugnaciously insist upon the verbal truth. |