Definition of Impugn. Meaning of Impugn. Synonyms of Impugn

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Definition of Impugn

Impugn
Impugn Im*pugn", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Impugned; p. pr. & vb. n. Impugning.] [OE. impugnen, F. impugner, fr. L. impugnare; in on, against + pugnare to flight. See Pugnacious.] To attack by words or arguments; to contradict; to assail; to call in question; to make insinuations against; to gainsay; to oppose. The truth hereof I will net rashly pugn, or overboldly affirm. --Peacham.

Meaning of Impugn from wikipedia

- the (now defunct) coronation banquet and challenge all comers who might impugn the King's title. The earliest record of the ceremony at the coronation...
- misrepresentations of her story in an attempt to heighten drama in ways that impugn her character, particularly in the editing of the show's final minutes....
- Estates as a parliament in its own right and made it "high treason" to impugn its authority or to so much as suggest attempting to alter the Claim of...
- thought. In contemporary political usage, the term Newspeak is used to impugn an opponent who introduces new definitions of words to suit their political...
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- Democratic war hero candidates, from John Kerry to Max Cleland, had been impugned so successfully that a neologism for such smears—to 'swift boat'—was coined...
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- demonstrate genuine folk music in his works are without basis. Richard Taruskin impugns Schumann's attitude toward Chopin's works as patronising, and comments...
- weight. Thus it denies the individual worth of the human personality, impugns the teaching that nationhood and race have a primary significance, and...
- tendency to make 'old Engels into a whipping boy, and to impugn him any sign that once chooses to impugn subsequent Marxsisms'". Tristram Hunt argues that Engels...