disputer

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

STRANGER: We were saying of him, if I am not mistaken, that he was a disputer?

From Sophist by Plato

So, at this serious moment, he whom they called "the Carthaginian disputer" was sorry not to be able to measure himself in a bout of dialectics with his half-dead friend.

From Saint Augustin by O'Sullivan, Vincent

Sauf l'Antino�s, les produits de cette sculpture d'imitation bien que datant d'une �poque encore brillante de l'art romain, ne sauraient le disputer � leurs mod�les.

From Walks in Rome by Hare, Augustus J. C.

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 Sue, Eugène