opponency
English
editEtymology
editNoun
editopponency (plural opponencies)
- (UK) The act of opening an academic disputation; the proposition of objections to a tenet, as an exercise for a degree.
- 1699, Mr. Chandler, A True Narrative of the Portsmouth Disputation:
- This is only a Trick to turn off the Opponency
References
edit- “opponency”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.