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"ref": "1679, William Penn, An Address to Protestants, London, Part 2, p. 77",
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"ref": "1777, Hannah More, “Thoughts on Conversation”, in Essays on Various Subjects, London: J. Wilkie and T. Cadell, page 54",
"text": "It is easier to confound than to convince an opponent; the former may be effected by a turn that has more happiness than truth in it.",
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"ref": "1847, Charlotte Brontë, chapter 4, in Jane Eyre",
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"ref": "1652, Peter Heylin, Cosmographie, London: Henry Seile, Book 1, Part 20, p. 205",
"text": "Their Oath is to maintain the Romish-Catholick Religion, and persecute all Opponents to it.",
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"ref": "1853, Elizabeth Gaskell, chapter 1, in Cranford",
"text": "My own friends had been among the bitterest opponents of any proposal to visit the Captain and his daughters, only twelve months before; and now he was even admitted in the tabooed hours before twelve.",
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"ref": "1551, Thomas Wilson, “The maner of confutacion twoo waies considered”, in The Rule of Reason, conteinyng the Arte of Logique, London",
"text": "We make the argument appere slender, when we receiue it laughyngly, and declare by wordes, euen at the first, that it is nothyng to the purpose, and so abashe the opponent.",
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"ref": "1587, Raphael Holinshed et al., “The Continvation of the chronicles of England from the yeare of our Lord 1576, to this present yeare 1586, &c.”, in The First and Second Volumes of Chronicles, London, page 1355",
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"ref": "1679, William Penn, An Address to Protestants, London, Part 2, p. 77",
"text": "[…] by the many Disputes that rise from hence, Mens Wits were confounded with their matters, Truth was lost & Brotherhood destroyed: thus the Devil acted the Part both of Opponent and Defendant, and managed the Passions of both Parties to his End, which was DISCORD.",
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"ref": "1700, John Sergeant, Transnatural Philosophy, London, Book 3, Chapter 1, p. 276",
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"sense": "one who opposes another",
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"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "sangdae",
"sense": "one who opposes another",
"word": "상대"
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"sense": "one who opposes another",
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"code": "pl",
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"sense": "one who opposes another",
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"sense": "one who opposes another",
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"sense": "one who opposes another physically",
"word": "對手"
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"code": "grc",
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"word": "ἀντίπαλος"
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"sense": "one who opposes another physically",
"word": "ellenfél"
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"sense": "one who opposes another physically",
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"sense": "one who opposes another physically",
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"sense": "one who opposes another physically",
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"sense": "one who opposes another physically",
"word": "wheinga"
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"sense": "one who opposes another physically",
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"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "one who opposes another physically",
"tags": [
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"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "protívnik",
"sense": "one who opposes another physically",
"tags": [
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"word": "проти́вник"
},
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"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "protívnica",
"sense": "one who opposes another physically",
"tags": [
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"word": "проти́вница"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "one who opposes another physically",
"tags": [
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"masculine"
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"word": "про̀тӣвнӣк"
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"sense": "one who opposes another physically",
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"sense": "one who opposes another physically",
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"sense": "one who opposes another physically",
"tags": [
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"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "one who opposes another physically",
"tags": [
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"word": "protivník"
},
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"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "one who opposes another physically",
"tags": [
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"code": "sl",
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"sense": "one who opposes another physically",
"tags": [
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"word": "nasprotnik"
},
{
"code": "sl",
"lang": "Slovene",
"sense": "one who opposes another physically",
"tags": [
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{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "one who opposes another physically",
"word": "oponente"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "one who opposes another physically",
"word": "contrincante"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "one who opposes another physically",
"word": "motståndare"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "suprotývnyk",
"sense": "one who opposes another physically",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "супроти́вник"
},
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"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "suprotývnycja",
"sense": "one who opposes another physically",
"tags": [
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"word": "супроти́вниця"
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"tags": [
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"roman": "protývnycja",
"sense": "one who opposes another physically",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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"word": "проти́вниця"
},
{
"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "ḵaṣm",
"sense": "one who opposes another in words",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "خَصْم"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "oponent",
"sense": "one who opposes another in words",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "опонент"
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{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "one who opposes another in words",
"word": "vastustaja"
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{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "one who opposes another in words",
"word": "vastaväittäjä"
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"code": "fi",
"english": "examiner in a thesis defense",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "one who opposes another in words",
"word": "opponentti"
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"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "one who opposes another in words",
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"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "one who opposes another in words",
"word": "opponens"
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"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "one who opposes another in words",
"word": "hoa tautohe"
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"code": "es",
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"sense": "one who opposes another in words",
"tags": [
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"word": "adversario"
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"code": "da",
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"sense": "one who objects to a policy, etc.",
"tags": [
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"word": "kritiker"
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{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "one who objects to a policy, etc.",
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"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "one who objects to a policy, etc.",
"word": "vastaehdokas"
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"code": "hu",
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"sense": "one who objects to a policy, etc.",
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"sense": "one who objects to a policy, etc.",
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"ref": "1647, Francis Bland, The Souldiers March to Salvation, York, page 25",
"text": "[…] we are to consider enemies as men opponent to peace and justice, and to these they are by warrs to be reduced; And no other ends in the pursuite of enemies by sword and hostile Acts are to be sought for […]",
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"ref": "1726, Elijah Fenton, transl., The Odyssey of Homer, Translated from the Greek by Alexander Pope, London, published 1760, Volume 4, Book 19, lines 524-525, p. 44",
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"ref": "1792, Thomas Holcroft, Anna St. Ives, London: Shepperson and Reynolds, Volume 4, Letter 64, p. 53",
"text": "The reasons you have urged are indeed weighty: yet they have never made an impression so deep upon my mind, as not to take flight, and leave their opponent arguments in some sort the victors.",
"type": "quotation"
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"ref": "1828, Stephen Drew, Principles of Self-Knowledge, London: Longman, Volume 2, Section 23, p. 24",
"text": "Let it not be supposed, that by “catholic,” I mean to designate men who are lax in their principles, and alike indifferent to all religious systems. On the contrary, they are more earnestly attached to truth, and more opponent to sin than others […]",
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