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But Beckmann was always a contradictor, a towering imagination that made no concessions to the fashions or political pressures of his time.

From Time Magazine Archive

The silence and the empty chair beside her quickly reminded her that her contradictor was gone—perhaps forever.

From Belford's Magazine, Vol 2, December 1888 by Various

But it went, he said, just like a decreet in absence, and was lost for want of a contradictor.

From Redgauntlet by Scott, Walter, Sir

I regret," replied Michel Ardan, "that I have not the honor of personally knowing my contradictor, for I would have attempted to answer him.

From From the Earth to the Moon; and, Round the Moon by Verne, Jules

Simply and innocently affirmative statements are good enough for empiricists, but unfit for rationalist use, lying open as they do to every accidental contradictor, and exposed to every puff of doubt.

From A Pluralistic Universe Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the Present Situation in Philosophy by James, William