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
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
But it will, though," retorted Douce Davie Deans; "I tell ye it will bear a disputer never like your cauld, legal, formal doctrines, neighbour Saddletree.
From The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Volume 1 by Sir Walter Scott
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
His flock scampered off in a fright, leaving him doggedly eyeing the disputer of his progress.
From An Arkansas Planter by Opie Percival Read
