Definition of "oppugnancy" [op•pug•nan•cy]

• The act of oppugning; opposition; resistance (noun)

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• "He indeed pushed himself into the front place by dint of copious verbosity, and militant oppugnancy."
• "There is oppugnancy between belief in an all-wise, all-good, and all-powerful God, and belief in the divine origin of Nature, whose face is smeared with filth and blood; but we hold that the conflicting faiths and increasing knowledge cannot add to the difficulty."
• "Gladiator-fights were prohibited, and the people were tired of wild beasts; but races, in which heathen and Christian alike might enter their horses for competition, must certainly prove most attractive just at this time of bitter rivalry and oppugnancy between the two religions, and would draw thousands of the most able-bodied idolaters to the"