opposer

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“If California legalizes sports gambling it becomes very unlikely that another state would arise as the consumer-oriented opposer of sports gambling.”

From New York Times • Jan. 18, 2022

The sole opposer was outgoing council member Brandon Todd, Ward 4 Democrat.

From Washington Times • Dec. 15, 2020

But it was as an enemy to slavery, and the first practical opposer of its injustice and its cruelties, that Granville Sharp earned a foremost place in the great bede-roll of our English philanthropists.

From Old and New London Volume I by Thornbury, Walter

He was a warm partisan of Fox, and a strenuous opposer of the war with France.

From The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 2: Ebert to Estremadura by Various

Beware Of entrance to a quarrel; but being in, Pg021 21 Bear it, that the opposer may beware of thee.

From Hamlet by Kean, Charles John