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- Opposition - n. - The act of opposing; an attempt to check, restrain, or defeat; resistance.
- Opposition - n. - The state of being placed over against; situation so as to front something else.
- Opposition - n. - Repugnance; contrariety of sentiment, interest, or purpose; antipathy.
- Opposition - n. - That which opposes; an obstacle; specifically, the aggregate of persons or things opposing; hence, in politics and parliamentary practice, the party opposed to the party in power.
- Opposition - n. - The situation of a heavenly body with respect to another when in the part of the heavens directly opposite to it; especially, the position of a planet or satellite when its longitude differs from that of the sun 180¡; -- signified by the symbol /; as, / / /, opposition of Jupiter to the sun.
- Opposition - n. - The relation between two propositions when, having the same subject and predicate, they differ in quantity, or in quality, or in both; or between two propositions which have the same matter but a different form.
- Oppositionist - n. - One who belongs to the opposition party.
- Side - v. i. - To embrace the opinions of one party, or engage in its interest, in opposition to another party; to take sides; as, to side with the ministerial party.
- Countermovement - - A movement in opposition to another.
- Itacism - n. - Pronunciation of / (eta) as the modern Greeks pronounce it, that is, like e in the English word be. This was the pronunciation advocated by Reu/hlin and his followers, in opposition to the etacism of Erasmus. See Etacism.
- Insurrection - n. - A rising against civil or political authority, or the established government; open and active opposition to the execution of law in a city or state.
- Adverse - a. - In hostile opposition to; unfavorable; unpropitious; contrary to one's wishes; unfortunate; calamitous; afflictive; hurtful; as, adverse fates, adverse circumstances, things adverse.
- Offer - v. t. - To put in opposition to; to manifest in an offensive way; to threaten; as, to offer violence, attack, etc.
- Oppositionist - n. - One who belongs to the opposition party.
- Cenobite - n. - One of a religious order, dwelling in a convent, or a community, in opposition to an anchoret, or hermit, who lives in solitude.
- Resistance - n. - The quality of not yielding to force or external pressure; that power of a body which acts in opposition to the impulse or pressure of another, or which prevents the effect of another power; as, the resistance of the air to a body passing through it; the resistance of a target to projectiles.
- Agrestic - a. - Pertaining to fields or the country, in opposition to the city; rural; rustic; unpolished; uncouth.
- Convex - a. - Rising or swelling into a spherical or rounded form; regularly protuberant or bulging; -- said of a spherical surface or curved line when viewed from without, in opposition to concave.
- Subcontrary - a. - Denoting the relation of opposition between the particular affirmative and particular negative. Of these both may be true and only one can be false.
- Jar - v. i. - To act in opposition or disagreement; to clash; to interfere; to quarrel; to dispute.
- Alive - a. - Having life, in opposition to dead; living; being in a state in which the organs perform their functions; as, an animal or a plant which is alive.
- Subdue - v. t. - To overcome, as by persuasion or other mild means; as, to subdue opposition by argument or entreaties.
- Ballot - v. t. - To vote for or in opposition to.
- Karyoplasma - n. - The protoplasmic substance of the nucleus of a cell: nucleoplasm; -- in opposition to kytoplasma, the protoplasm of the cell.
- Whereas - conj. - When in fact; while on the contrary; the case being in truth that; although; -- implying opposition to something that precedes; or implying recognition of facts, sometimes followed by a different statement, and sometimes by inferences or something consequent.
- Non obstante - - Notwithstanding; in opposition to, or in spite of, what has been stated, or is to be stated or admitted.
- Disputation - v. i. - A rhetorical exercise in which parties reason in opposition to each other on some question proposed.
- Inversion - n. - A method of reasoning in which the orator shows that arguments advanced by his adversary in opposition to him are really favorable to his cause.
- Dispute - v. t. - To oppose by argument or assertion; to attempt to overthrow; to controvert; to express dissent or opposition to; to call in question; to deny the truth or validity of; as, to dispute assertions or arguments.
- Rencounter - n. - A meeting of two persons or bodies; a collision; especially, a meeting in opposition or contest; a combat, action, or engagement.
- Fight - v. i. - To act in opposition to anything; to struggle against; to contend; to strive; to make resistance.
- Skeptic - n. - A doubter as to whether any fact or truth can be certainly known; a universal doubter; a Pyrrhonist; hence, in modern usage, occasionally, a person who questions whether any truth or fact can be established on philosophical grounds; sometimes, a critical inquirer, in opposition to a dogmatist.
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- G2189 ἔχθρα - 2189 ἔχθρα - ἜΧΘΡΑ - - échthra - ekh'-thrah - feminine of ἐχθρός; hostility; by implication, a reason for opposition:--enmity, hatred. - Noun Feminine - greek
- G477 ἀντίθεσις - 477 ἀντίθεσις - ἈΝΤΊΘΕΣΙΣ - - antíthesis - an-tith'-es-is - from a compound of ἀντί and τίθημι; opposition, i.e. a conflict (of theories):--opposition. - Noun Feminine - greek
- H2617 חֵסֵד - 2617 חֵסֵד - חֵסֵד - - chêçêd - kheh'-sed - from חָסַד; kindness; by implication (towards God) piety; rarely (by opposition) reproof, or (subject.) beauty; favour, good deed(-liness, -ness), kindly, (loving-) kindness, merciful (kindness), mercy, pity, reproach, wicked thing. - Noun Masculine - heb
- G2596 κατά - 2596 κατά - ΚΑΤΆ - - katá - kat-ah' - a primary particle; (prepositionally) down (in place or time), in varied relations (according to the case (genitive, dative or accusative) with which it is joined):--about, according as (to), after, against, (when they were) X alone, among, and, X apart, (even, like) as (concerning, pertaining to touching), X aside, at, before, beyond, by, to the charge of, (charita-)bly, concerning, + covered, (dai-)ly, down, every, (+ far more) exceeding, X more excellent, for, from … to, godly, in(-asmuch, divers, every, -to, respect of), … by, after the manner of, + by any means, beyond (out of) measure, X mightily, more, X natural, of (up-)on (X part), out (of every), over against, (+ your) X own, + particularly, so, through(-oughout, -oughout every), thus, (un-)to(-gether, -ward), X uttermost, where(-by), with. In composition it retains many of these applications, and frequently denotes opposition, distribution, or intensity. - Preposition - greek
- H7855 שִׂטְנָה - 7855 שִׂטְנָה - שִׂטְנָה - - siṭnâh - sit-naw' - from שָׂטַן; opposition (by letter); accusation. - Noun Feminine - heb
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- 1 Timothy 54 6:20 O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called:
Ὦ ΤΙΜΌΘΕΟΣ ΦΥΛΆΣΣΩ ΠΑΡΑΚΑΤΑΘΉΚΗ ἘΚΤΡΈΠΩ ΒΈΒΗΛΟΣ ΚΕΝΟΦΩΝΊΑ ΚΑΊ ἈΝΤΊΘΕΣΙΣ ΓΝῶΣΙΣ ΨΕΥΔΏΝΥΜΟΣ