disputer

Example Sentences

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But Miss Seeds, no mean disputer herself, also had the powerful backing of the University of California at Los Angeles.

From Time Magazine Archive

For the disputer is always seeking to trip up his opponent; and this is a mode of argument which disgusts men with philosophy as they grow older.

From Theaetetus by Jowett, Benjamin

He did not assume to himself the wonted formalities of a great doctor, or of an acute reasoner and disputer.

From True Christianity by Arndt, Johann

Sauf l'Antino�s, les produits de cette sculpture d'imitation bien que datant d'une �poque encore brillante de l'art romain, ne sauraient le disputer � leurs mod�les.

From Walks in Rome by Hare, Augustus J. C.

Why then does not the disputer, thus recollecting, taste in the mouth of his musing the sweetness of joy, or the bitterness of sorrow?

From The Confessions of St. Augustine by Pusey, E. B. (Edward Bouverie)