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

He hath created man of seed; and yet behold he is a professed disputer against the resurrection.

From The Koran (Al-Qur'an) by Sale, George

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

Where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this world?

From Critical Examination of the Life of St. Paul by Annet, Peter

For the disputer is always seeking to trip up his opponent; and this is a mode of argument which disgusts men with philosophy as they grow older.

From Theaetetus by Jowett, Benjamin