oppugnancy

English

Etymology

From oppugnant +‎ -cy. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Noun

oppugnancy (countable and uncountable, plural oppugnancies)

1. The act of oppugning; opposition; resistance
   • c. 1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii]:

     Take but degree away, untune that string,
     And, hark, what discord follows! each thing meets
     In mere oppugnancy […]

See also

• oppugnant