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Definition of Opponency
1. n. The act of opening an academical disputation; the proposition of objections to a tenet, as an exercise for a degree.
Definition of Opponency
1. Noun. (U.K.) The act of opening an academic disputation; the proposition of objections to a tenet, as an exercise for a degree. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Opponency
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Opponency
Literary usage of Opponency
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A History of the Study of Mathematics at Cambridge by Walter William Rouse Ball (1889)
"... as much as is ever given to a third opponency)—I've a first opponency for NoV
... a second opponency for NoV 19th under Lax against Gray of Peter-House. ..."
2. The Grey Friars in Oxford: Part I: A History of the Convent, Part II by Andrew George Little (1892)
"Two more years elapsed before he could become a ' respondent V Opposition or
opponency and ... of two years or anything approaching it between opponency and ..."
3. Munimenta Academica by University of Oxford (1868)
"Graduates in arts must have spent five years in study of theology, non-graduates
seven before opponency; "the sentences" may not be read by graduates in ..."
4. Collection of Statutes for the University and the Colleges of Cambridge by Heywood, James, University of Cambridge (1840)
"And we will that he give pledge of this, in the presence of the master and
proctors, by oath taken by himself, before he holds his opponency in the schools. ..."
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