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
But it will, though," retorted Douce Davie Deans; "I tell ye it will bear a disputer never like your cauld, legal, formal doctrines, neighbour Saddletree.
From The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Volume 1 by Sir Walter Scott
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 Vincent O'Sullivan
STRANGER: We were saying of him, if I am not mistaken, that he was a disputer?
From Sophist by Plato
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 E. B. (Edward Bouverie) Pusey
