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adversaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Adversary \Ad`ver*sa*ry\, n.; pl. Adversaries. [OE. adversarie, direct fr. the Latin, and adversaire, fr. OF. adversier, aversier, fr. L. adversarius (a.) turned toward, (n.) an adversary. See Adverse.] One who is turned against another or others with a design to oppose or resist them; a member of an opposing or hostile party; an opponent; an antagonist; an enemy; a foe.
His ancient knot of dangerous adversaries.
--Shak.
Agree with thine adversary quickly.
--Matt. v. 25.
It may be thought that to vindicate the permanency of
truth is to dispute without an adversary.
--Beattie.
The Adversary, The Satan, or the Devil.
Syn: Adversary, Enemy, Opponent, Antagonist.
Usage: Enemy is the only one of these words which necessarily implies a state of personal hostility. Men may be adversaries, antagonists, or opponents to each other in certain respects, and yet have no feelings of general animosity. An adversary may be simply one who is placed for a time in a hostile position, as in a lawsuit, an argument, in chess playing, or at fence. An opponent is one who is ranged against another (perhaps passively) on the opposing side; as a political opponent, an opponent in debate. An antagonist is one who struggles against another with active effort, either in a literal fight or in verbal debate.
Wiktionary
n. (plural of adversary English)
Usage examples of "adversaries".
In other words, possession of nuclear weapons would deter his nuclear-armed adversaries from taking action against him, thereby enabling him to take actions that he otherwise could not.
She could detect at a glance my most secret adversaries, and evaluated my followers with cool detachment.
Grown to manhood, I found in hunting release from many a secret struggle with adversaries too subtle or too stupid in turn, too weak or too strong for me.
The most dangerous of my adversaries was Lusius Quietus, a Roman with some Arab blood, whose Numidian squadrons had played an important part in the second Dacian campaign, and who was pressing fiercely for the Asiatic war.
My adversaries would have to reckon with the presence of this aged sufferer from gout, who was setting forth only in order to serve me, and with this woman who could exact of herself the long endurance of a soldier.
The satiric songs with which these low-class Hellenes were wont to antagonize their adversaries were scarcely less stupid than the grotesque imprecations from the Jewries.
One is always content to be relieved of one's adversaries, but my guardian had proceeded with the indifference of age for the far-reaching consequences of his act: he had forgotten that I should have to live with the after effects of these murders for more than twenty years.
Fendal and Kersion, prepared to wield their swords in a fight for their lives, instead saw their adversaries topple to the dirt screaming like terrified children.
He had determined that their only hope lay in accounting for as many of their adversaries in the first clash of arms as was possible, and this word he had passed down the line with the further admonition that the instant that a man had disposed of an antagonist he turn immediately to help the red nearest him, or the one most sorely beset.
The Tuigan, however, were accustomed to battling fleeing adversaries and did not allow them to escape.
Our adversaries, other terrorist-supporting states, and Iraq's advocates would likely be less willing to support or condone an Iraqi-sponsored terrorist campaign if they knew that Saddam's fate was sealed.
And had we not been open supporters of Germany's adversaries, there is little reason to think Hitler would have declared war on us when he did.
Satanists historically were educated men who stood as adversaries to the church.
Langdon quickly explained how most people pictured satanic cults as devil-worshiping fiends, and yet Satanists historically were educated men who stood as adversaries to the church.