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

Doth not man know that we have created him of seed? yet behold, he is an open disputer against the resurrection; and he propoundeth unto us a comparison, and forgetteth his creation.

From The Koran (Al-Qur'an) by Sale, George

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

His flock scampered off in a fright, leaving him doggedly eyeing the disputer of his progress.

From An Arkansas Planter by Read, Opie Percival

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