inquirer

[ in-kwahyuhr-er ]

/ ɪnˈkwaɪər ər /

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noun

a person who asks a question or seeks to learn about something, often someone whose character it is to do so:The answer to any question is available within a second or two on the Internet, but it's up to the inquirer to evaluate the validity of the answer.Any inquirer into scientific truth must be absolutely confident that the whole world makes a certain kind of sense.

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Origin of inquirer

inquire + -er¹

How to use inquirer in a sentence

Many other of the famous inquirers in those years which ushered in modern science believed in witchcraft.
Outlines of the Earth's History|Nathaniel Southgate Shaler
Statements rendered by mercantile or collection agencies to inquirers for business purposes are clearly privileged.
Putnam's Handy Law Book for the Layman|Albert Sidney Bolles
He was not a dialectician, but a moralist, and as such takes the highest ground of all the old inquirers after truth.
Beacon Lights of History, Volume I|John Lord
He wanted only positive truth,--something to build upon,--like Bacon and all great inquirers.
Beacon Lights of History, Volume I|John Lord

They had told what they knew to several other inquirers already, but the woman repeated it to me.
A Thin Ghost and Others|M. R. (Montague Rhodes) James

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