All 4 Uses
antagonism
in
Selected Essays
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- We are armed all over with subtle antagonisms, which, as soon as we meet, begin to play, and translate all poetry into stale prose.†
Chpt 4.
- I am equally balked by antagonism and by compliance.†
Chpt 4. *antagonism = hostility or opposition
- We write from aspiration and antagonism, as well as from experience.†
Chpt 10.
- Though your views are in straight antagonism[687] to theirs, assume an identity of sentiment, assume that you are saying precisely that which all think, and in the flow of wit and love roll out your paradoxes in solid column, with not the infirmity of a doubt.†
Chpt 10.
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) 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.