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Impugner

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im·pugn  (m-pyn)
tr.v. im·pugned, im·pugn·ing, im·pugns
To attack as false or questionable; challenge in argument: impugn a political opponent's record.

[Middle English impugnen, from Old French impugner, from Latin impugnre : in-, against; see in-2 + pugnre, to fight; see peuk- in Indo-European roots.]

im·pugna·ble adj.
im·pugner n.


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The rabid anti-Semite Leon de Castro, professor of Greek at Salamanca and one of fray Luis' principal impugners, invoked such arguments to lash against "Iudaei & Iudaizantes" as he defended the superiority of the Vulgate and the Septuagint over the Hebrew Bible (Thompson 1988, 47ff).
 
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