Both Uses of
antagonism
in
The Remains of the Day
- Mr Lewis apart, however, the other guests, perhaps through awe, perhaps through a sense of antagonism, kept a wary distance from M. Dupont, a fact that was conspicuous even in that generally guarded atmosphere, and which seemed to underline all the more the feeling that it was M. Dupont who somehow held the key to the outcome of the following days.†
Chpt 2m -antagonism = hostility or opposition
- I have remembered these remarks because they truly surprised me at the time, his lordship never previously having shown any antagonism whatsoever towards the Jewish race.†
Chpt 3e - *
Definitions:
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(1)
(antagonism) hostility, opposition, or tension between opposing forces or ideas
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
More rarely, antagonism can refer to the relation between opposing principles, forces, or factors. In biochemistry, it can refer specifically to one chemical's interference with another.