propounder
- a word derived from propound.
Example Sentences
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Poet, psychologist, anarchist, teacher, novelist, propounder of extreme solutions to mundane problems, he could never see why conventional critics often dismissed him as a gadfly.
From Time Magazine Archive
Bushido has found an able propounder in Dr. Nitobé.
From Japan and the California Problem by Iyenaga, Toyokichi
His vaguely grand conception of the atoms falling eternally through space, suggested the nebular hypothesis to Kant, its first propounder.
From Fragments of science, V. 1-2 by Tyndall, John
In early times they must have enjoyed considerable dignity; Upali the barber was the first propounder of the law of the Buddhist church.
From The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India - Volume IV of IV Kumhar-Yemkala by Russell, R. V. (Robert Vane)
As an argument founded on analogy, the design argument, as the best, could only entitle its propounder to infer the existence of a finite cause, or rather of a multitude of finite causes.
From Theological Essays by Bradlaugh, Charles
