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Definition of Impugn
1. Verb. Attack as false or wrong.
Definition of Impugn
1. v. t. To attack by words or arguments; to contradict; to assail; to call in question; to make insinuations against; to gainsay; to oppose.
Definition of Impugn
1. Verb. (transitive, obsolete) To assault, attack. ¹
2. Verb. (transitive) To verbally assault, especially to argue against an opinion, motive, or action; to question the truth or validity of. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Impugn
1. to make insinuations against [v -ED, -ING, -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Impugn
Literary usage of Impugn
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"Having embraced Catholicism he visited Rome and Flanders, where, in 1592, he "
elected to militate under the Jesuits' standard, because they do most impugn ..."
2. The Port Folio by Joseph Dennie (1813)
"... and I am by no means disposed to impugn the correctness of their opinion.
Let each enjoy his own. De gustibus non est disputandum. ..."
3. The Scottish Jurist: Containing Reports of Cases Decided in the House of by Great Britain Parliament. House of Lords, House of Lords, Parliament, Great Britain (1842)
"The composition-contract was carried through on this understanding, and Izat
cannot now be listened to when he seeks to impugn it. ..."
4. The Autobiography of a Seaman by Thomas Cochrane Dundonald (1861)
"1 impugn THE DECISION OF THE HOUSE. SIR FRANCIS BURDETT'S OPINION. — MR. WINDHAM'S.
— LORD MULGRAVE TURNS ROUND UPON ME. HIS LORDSHIP'S MISREPRESENTATIONS. ..."
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