disputern.
/dɪˈspjuːtə/ One who disputes; one who is given to disputation or controversy; a disputant.
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the mind > attention and judgement > testing > debate, disputation, argument > controversy, dispute, argument > [noun] > person engaged in
disputer1434
wrangler1561
debater1594
controvertist1608
disputant1612
controverser1614
controverter1615
controversist1623
disputator1637
polemic1639
disceptator1656
controversialist1658
eristic1659
scaldabancoa1670
fencera1680
controversionalist?1780
digladiator1803
argufier1805
polemist1825
polemicist1864
polemician1871
picador1876
barrack-room lawyer1943
R. Misyn tr. R. Rolle Mending of Life 121 Hard sentens to disputars..be left.
1539 Bible (Great) 1 Cor. i. 20 Where is the disputer of this worlde?
1544 R. Tracy Supplycacion to Kynge Henry VIII sig. Aiijv The..teachinge of suche scole men & subtyll disputers.
1644 J. Milton Doctr. Divorce (ed. 2) 40 In this controversie the justice of God stood upright ev'n among heathen disputers.
1725 I. Watts Logick ii. iii. 328 Your great Disputers and your Men of Controversy are in continual Danger of this sort of Prejudice.
1875 B. Jowett tr. Plato Dialogues (ed. 2) I. 468 Great disputers..come to think..that they have grown to be the wisest of mankind.
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