Both Uses
antagonist
in
Maggie: A Girl of the Streets
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- On the ground, children from Devil's Row closed in on their antagonist.†
Chpt 1antagonist = someone who offers opposition or is hostile
- One day the young man, Pete, who as a lad had smitten the Devil's Row urchin in the back of the head and put to flight the antagonists of his friend, Jimmie, strutted upon the scene.†
Chpt 5 *antagonists = people who offer opposition or are hostile
Definitions:
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(antagonist as in: the antagonist in the film) someone who offers opposition or is hostile
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(meaning too rare to warrant focus) Specialized Definitions of antagonist:
- literature or storytelling: the most important character who opposes the main character or protagonist
- physiology: a muscle that relaxes when another muscle contracts
- chemistry and biology: a substance that interferes with the effect of another substance