"opponency" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From opponent + -cy?",
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          "ref": "1699, Mr. Chandler, A True Narrative of the Portsmouth Disputation:",
          "text": "This is only a Trick to turn off the Opponency",
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          "text": "The chairman of the committee will be very glad to give you the opportunity to express your views, whether of proponency or opponency.",
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        "The act of opening an academic disputation; the proposition of objections to a tenet, as an exercise for a degree."
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        "(UK) The act of opening an academic disputation; the proposition of objections to a tenet, as an exercise for a degree."
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