Impugn meaning

ĭm-pyo͝on'
The definition of impugn is to question the truthfulness or validity of a statement.

An example of impugn is when you call someone out on what you believe to be a lie.

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To attack as false or questionable; challenge in argument.

Impugn a political opponent's record.

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To attack physically.
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To attack by argument or criticism; oppose or challenge as false or questionable.
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To verbally assault, especially to argue against an opinion, motive, or action; to question the truth or validity of.
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Origin of impugn

  • Middle English impugnen from Old French impugner from Latin impugnāre in- against in–2 pugnāre to fight peuk- in Indo-European roots
    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
  • From Old French impugner, from Latin impugnō, from im- + pugnō (“fight”), from pugnus (“fist”) (as in English pugilism (“fighting with fists, boxing”)), from Proto-Indo-European roots.
    From Wiktionary

Impugn Sentence Examples

  • At the same time he did not impugn the authority of the Church, which he regarded as useful in maintaining external unity.

  • There is no reason to impugn the soundness of this substantially consentient testimony to the pronunciation Yahweh or Jahveh, coming as it does through several independent channels.

  • Pecock's idea was that all the statements which he was prepared to impugn came from three false opinions or "trowings," viz.

  • Yet these two schools of Sufis were never quite similar; on Sunnite soil Sufiism could not openly impugn orthodox views, while in Persia it was saturated with Shiite heresy and the pantheism of the extreme devotees of 'Ali.

  • Orthodox churchmen, Evangelical and Tractarian alike, were alarmed by views on the incarnate nature of Christ that seemed to them to impugn his Divinity, and by concessions to the Higher Criticism in the matter of the inspiration of Holy Scriptures which appeared to them to convert the "impregnable rock," as Gladstone had called it, into a foundation of sand; sceptics, on the other hand, were not greatly impressed by a system of defence which seemed to draw an artificial line beyond which criticism was not to advance.

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