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Vinony

adversary

noun

  1. someone who opposes someone else
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ˈæd.və.sɛɹi/ / /ˈæd.və.s(ə)ɹi/ / /ædˈvɜː.sə.ɹi/

name

Etymology: A biblical reference, Satan ultimately deriving from a borrowing of the Hebrew שָׂטָן (Śāṭān, “adversary, accuser”). (See also Satan).

  1. The Devil; Satan.

    “Yahweh′s turning Gog around, putting hooks in his jaws, and bringing him out from the remotest parts of the north (Ezek. 38:4-6) is now interpreted as the release of the Adversary from prison.”

noun

Etymology: From Middle English adversarie, from Anglo-Norman aversaire (in Wace's Life of Saint Margaret) and Old French aversier, aversaire (French adversaire), from Latin adversārius, from adversus (“turned toward”). By surface analysis, adverse + -ary.

  1. A person, group, or thing that opposes or attacks another person or group; an opponent or rival.

    “He prepared to fight his adversary.”

    “In the political drama that Donald Trump has created in Washington, he could not have dreamed up a more formidable adversary than James Comey.”