"oppugn" meaning in English

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        {
          "word": "oppugnable"
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          "word": "oppugnant"
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          "ref": "1662 (indicated as 1663), [Samuel Butler], “[The First Part of Hudibras]”, in Hudibras. The First and Second Parts. […], London: […] John Martyn and Henry Herringman, […], published 1678; republished in A[lfred] R[ayney] Waller, editor, Hudibras: Written in the Time of the Late Wars, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: University Press, 1905, →OCLC:",
          "text": "If nothing can oppugne love,\nAnd virtue invious ways can prove,\nWhat may not he confide to do\nThat brings both love and virtue too?",
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          "ref": "1761, Laurence Sterne, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, volume III, London: R. and J. Dodsley, page 180:",
          "text": "It is for the same reason, that is, because 'tis all comprehended in Slawkenbergius, that I say nothing likewise of Scroderus (Andrea) who all the world knows, set himself to oppugn Prignitz with great violence, ---- proving it in his own way, first logically, and then by a series of stubborn facts",
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        "(transitive, rare) To contradict or controvert; to oppose; to challenge or question the truth or validity of a given statement."
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          "word": "impugn"
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          "word": "repugnant"
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      "word": "oppugnant"
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