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[ noun ] someone who offers opposition

Used in print

(Randall Stewart, "A Little History, a Little Honesty: A...)

The traditional strategy of the South has been to expose the vices of the North , to demonstrate that the North possessed no superior virtue , to `` show the world that '' ( as James 's Christopher_Newman said to his adversaries ) `` however bad I may be , you 're not quite the people to say it '' .

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