disputer

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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

So, at this serious moment, he whom they called "the Carthaginian disputer" was sorry not to be able to measure himself in a bout of dialectics with his half-dead friend.

From Saint Augustin by O'Sullivan, Vincent

Listen to the word of God: “‘Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this world?

From Voices; Birth-Marks; The Man and the Elephant by Holt, Mathew Joseph

When God teaches, "Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this world?"

From Sermons to the Natural Man by Shedd, William G. T. (William Greenough Thayer)

STRANGER: We were saying of him, if I am not mistaken, that he was a disputer?

From Sophist by Plato