Both Uses of
adversary
in
All's Well That Ends Well, by Shakespeare
- I with a troop of Florentines will suddenly surprise him; such I will have whom I am sure he knows not from the enemy; we will bind and hoodwink him so that he shall suppose no other but that he is carried into the leaguer of the adversaries when we bring him to our own tents.†
Scene 3.6adversaries = opponents
- He must think us some band of strangers i' the adversary's entertainment.†
Scene 4.1 *adversary = opponent
Definition:
an opponent