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Definition of Opposition

Opposition The act of opposing; an attempt to check, restrain, or defeat; resistance. The state of being placed over against; situation so as to front something else. Repugnance; contrariety of sentiment, interest, or purpose; antipathy. 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. 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. 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. Related Definitions: Act, Against, Aggregate, An, And, Another, Antipathy, As, Attempt, Being, Between, Body, Both, But, By, Check, Contrariety, Defeat, Differ, Different, Directly, Else, Especially, Form, From, Front, Have, Having, Heavenly, Hence, In, Interest, It, Jupiter, Longitude, Matter, Obstacle, Of, Opposed, Opposing, Opposite, Opposition, Or, Over, Parliamentary, Part, Party, Placed, Planet, Politics, Position, Power, Practice, Predicate, Purpose, Quality, Quantity, Relation, Repugnance, Resistance, Respect, Restrain, Same, Satellite, Sentiment, Signified, Situation, So, Something, Specifically, State, Subject, Sun, Symbol, That, The, They, To, Two, When, Which, With

Opposition Quotations Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. Albert Einstein No Government can be long secure without a formidable Opposition. Benjamin Disraeli Opposition is true friendship. William Blake Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution. George Eliot Many a man's strength is in opposition, and when he faileth, he grows out of use. Francis Bacon

Opposition Translations opposition in Dutch is oppositie, tegenstand opposition in Finnish is vastustus opposition in German is Gegensatz, Gegenseite opposition in Italian is opposizione, antagonismo opposition in Latin is contradictio

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