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

And a little farther he saith, 'And now let this carnal politic counsellor, and disputer of this world, tell wherein have they to blame me.

From Works of John Bunyan — Volume 03 by Bunyan, John

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)

Where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this world?

From Critical Examination of the Life of St. Paul by Annet, Peter