All 6 Uses
adversary
in
The Life and Death of King Richard III
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- Grim-visag'd war hath smooth'd his wrinkled front; And now,—instead of mounting barbed steeds To fright the souls of fearful adversaries,—He capers nimbly in a lady's chamber To the lascivious pleasing of a lute.†
Scene 1.1adversaries = opponents
- Ere you were queen, ay, or your husband king, I was a pack-horse in his great affairs; A weeder-out of his proud adversaries, A liberal rewarder of his friends; To royalize his blood I spilt mine own.†
Scene 1.3 *
- Commend me to Lord William: tell him, Catesby, His ancient knot of dangerous adversaries To-morrow are let blood at Pomfret Castle; And bid my lord, for joy of this good news, Give Mistress Shore one gentle kiss the more.†
Scene 3.1
- Indeed, I am no mourner for that news, Because they have been still my adversaries: But that I'll give my voice on Richard's side To bar my master's heirs in true descent, God knows I will not do it to the death.†
Scene 3.2
- O Thou Whose captain I account myself, Look on my forces with a gracious eye; Put in their hands Thy bruising irons of wrath, That they may crush down with a heavy fall The usurping helmets of our adversaries!†
Scene 5.3
- Thou quiet soul, sleep thou a quiet sleep; Dream of success and happy victory: Thy adversary's wife doth pray for thee.†
Scene 5.3adversary = opponent
Definitions:
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(1)
(adversary) an opponent
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)