Definition of "oppugners" [oppugners]

• Plural form of oppugner. (noun)

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• "I know these sports have many oppugners, whole volumes writ against them; when as all they say (if duly considered) is but ignoratio Elenchi; and some again, because they are now cold and wayward, past themselves, cavil at all such youthful sports in others, as he did in the comedy; they think them, illico nasci senes,"
• "Poverty and want are so violent oppugners, so unwelcome guests, so much abhorred of all men, that I may not omit to speak of them apart."
• "Revenge and malice were as two violent oppugners on the one side; but honesty, religion, fear of God, withheld him on the other."