Definition of opposition

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Opposition (n.) The act of opposing; an attempt to check, restrain, or defeat; resistance..

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Conflict :: Conflict (v. i.) To be in opposition; to be contradictory.
Opposition :: Opposition (n.) The state of being placed over against; situation so as to front something else.
Easiness :: Easiness (n.) Freedom from emotion; compliance; disposition to yield without opposition; unconcernedness.
Bear :: Bear (v. i.) To produce, as fruit; to be fruitful, in opposition to barrenness..
Artificial :: Artificial (a.) Made or contrived by art; produced or modified by human skill and labor, in opposition to natural; as, artificial heat or light, gems, salts, minerals, fountains, flowers..
To :: To (prep.) Apposition; connection; antithesis; opposition; as, they engaged hand to hand..
Maggiore :: Maggiore (a.) Greater, in respect to scales, intervals, etc., when used in opposition to minor; major..
Octant :: Octant (n.) The position or aspect of a heavenly body, as the moon or a planet, when half way between conjunction, or opposition, and quadrature, or distant from another body 45 degrees..
Opposition :: Opposition (n.) The act of opposing; an attempt to check, restrain, or defeat; resistance..
Decussated :: Decussated (a.) Consisting of two rising and two falling clauses, placed in alternate opposition to each other; as, a decussated period..
Whereas :: Whereas (conj.) When in fact; while on the contrary; the case being in truth that; although; -- implying opposition to something that precedes; or implying recognition of facts, sometimes followed by a different statement, and sometimes by inferences or something consequent..
Friend :: Friend (n.) One of a religious sect characterized by disuse of outward rites and an ordained ministry, by simplicity of dress and speech, and esp. by opposition to war and a desire to live at peace with all men. They are popularly called Quakers..
Antichristianity :: Antichristianity (n.) Opposition or contrariety to the Christian religion.
Adverseness :: Adverseness (n.) The quality or state of being adverse; opposition.
Negative :: Negative (n.) That side of a question which denies or refuses, or which is taken by an opposing or denying party; the relation or position of denial or opposition; as, the question was decided in the negative..
Resist :: Resist (v. i.) To make opposition.
Scotist :: Scotist (n.) A follower of (Joannes) Duns Scotus, the Franciscan scholastic (d. 1308), who maintained certain doctrines in philosophy and theology, in opposition to the Thomists, or followers of Thomas Aquinas, the Dominican scholastic..
Against :: Against (prep.) In opposition to, whether the opposition is of sentiment or of action; on the other side; counter to; in contrariety to; hence, adverse to; as, against reason; against law; to run a race against time..
Look :: Look (v. t.) To influence, overawe, or subdue by looks or presence as, to look down opposition..
Disgust :: Disgust (v. t.) Repugnance to what is offensive; aversion or displeasure produced by something loathsome; loathing; strong distaste; -- said primarily of the sickening opposition felt for anything which offends the physical organs of taste; now rather of the analogous repugnance excited by anything extremely unpleasant to the moral taste or higher sensibilities of our nature; as, an act of cruelty may excite disgust..
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