oppugner
Example Sentences
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Dennis, the fiercest oppugner of puns in ancient or modern times, professes himself highly tickled with the "a stick" chiming to "ecclesiastic."
From The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb
Now the burden of the proof lies with the oppugner, not with the supporters of the common belief.
From Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Now the burthen of the proof lies with the oppugner, not with the supporters of the common belief.
From English Critical Essays Nineteenth Century by Edmund David Jones
