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antagonist
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William Wilson
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- I could find, indeed, but one vulnerable point, and that, lying in a personal peculiarity, arising, perhaps, from constitutional disease, would have been spared by any antagonist less at his wit's end than myself;—my rival had a weakness in the faucal or guttural organs, which precluded him from raising his voice at any time above a very low whisper.†
antagonist = someone who offers opposition or is hostile
- We had protracted our sitting far into the night, and I had at length effected the manoeuvre of getting Glendinning as my sole antagonist.†
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- In this disposition, the dupe who cuts, as customary, at the length of the pack, will invariably find that he cuts his antagonist an honor; while the gambler, cutting at the breadth, will, as certainly, cut nothing for his victim which may count in the records of the game.†
- I hastened to prevent an intrusion, and then immediately returned to my dying antagonist.†
- It was my antagonist—it was Wilson, who then stood before me in the agonies of his dissolution.†
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