disputer

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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

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.

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 Pusey, E. B. (Edward Bouverie)

His flock scampered off in a fright, leaving him doggedly eyeing the disputer of his progress.

From An Arkansas Planter by Read, Opie Percival

When God teaches, "Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this world?"

From Sermons to the Natural Man by Shedd, William G. T. (William Greenough Thayer)