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Definition of Oppositional
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Oppositional
Literary usage of Oppositional
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Opposition and Dissent in Contemporary China by Peter R. Moody (1977)
"oppositional Interests 5 This chapter examines some possible sources of opposition
to and within the regime in China, opposition that may vary in intensity ..."
2. History of the Christian Philosophy of Religion from the Reformation to Kant by Bernhard Pünjer (1887)
"THE oppositional MOVEMENTS WITHIN PROTESTANTISM. DURING the age of the Reformation
there arose certain views and tendencies, represented by men who were ..."
3. The Second Australasian Conference on Interactive Entertainment: Proceedings by Yusuf Pisan, SIGART. (2005)
"The "oppositional play" approach emerges directly from this and is discussed
along with several examples showing how placing values on the semiotic square ..."
4. Russia, what She was and what She is: An Excursion Into a Land of Seething by Jaakoff Prelooker (1904)
"THE oppositional AND REVOLUTIONARY ELEMENTS. Since the outbreak of the Russo-Japanese
war the questions have occupied the minds of all thinking people: What ..."
5. Technologies for Understanding and Preventing Substance Abuse and Addiction by DIANE Publishing Company (1996)
"Development of an oppositional Culture While oppressive social conditions, limited
economic opportunities, and racism are identified by ethnographers as ..."
6. The Great Harmonia: Being a Philosophical Revelation of the Natural by Andrew Jackson Davis (1890)
"An oppositional class—a Theoretical class—and a Practical class. 1st. What is
meant by the oppositional class of reformers ? By the oppositional class, ..."