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

As Great-heart was knocked down with this giant's club, so many a faithful minister has been confounded with the subtle arguments of a cunning disputer.

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

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

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

From Sophist by Plato