dispute
verb (used without object)
to engage in argument or debate.
disputer
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a word derived from
dispute.
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
The theologian and the disputer ended by hiding the man in Augustin.
From Saint Augustin by Vincent O'Sullivan
Where is the wise and where is the disputer?
From The Christ Of Paul Or, The Enigmas of Christianity by George Reber
Why then does not the disputer, thus recollecting, taste in the mouth of his musing the sweetness of joy, or the bitterness of sorrow?
From The Confessions of St. Augustine by E. B. (Edward Bouverie) Pusey
The illustrious disputer is a dry, bilious and bald old man.
From The Iron Pincers or Mylio and Karvel A Tale of the Albigensian Crusades by Eugène Sue
