Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who disputes, or who is given to disputation or controversy.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One who disputes, or who is given to disputes; a controvertist.

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  • noun One who disputes.

Etymologies

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to dispute + -er

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Examples

  • It's only down in the comments that this assertion is disputed by the guy who brings up Doom Patrol #14, and then Kesel himself disputes the disputer by saying that that was a Chaos Dimension, but not the Chaos Dimension he had invented for that H&D story.

    Comic Book Urban Legends Revealed #136 | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources 2008

  • 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.

    Theaetetus 2007

  • He was a poor Neapolitan priest, a theologian and preacher by trade, an outrageous disputer on quiddities and universals, and

    A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

  • I complain is that you do not distinguish between mere disputation and dialectic: the disputer may trip up his opponent as often as he likes, and make fun; but the dialectician will be in earnest, and only correct his adversary when necessary, telling him the errors into which he has fallen through his own fault, or that of the company which he has previously kept.

    Theaetetus 2007

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

    The Sophist 2006

  • Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this world? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?

    Probably Just One Of Those Funny Coincidences 2006

  • Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this world? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?

    Villaraigosa And Nunez Cut And Run - Video Report 2006

  • It also provides an approach to winning any disputation: instead of seeking objective criteria that fix the correct distinctions between things, the disputer just redraws the distinctions between things or kinds in whatever way he needs to establish his claim.

    School of Names Fraser, Chris 2005

  • It is an exercise in cleverness, a kind of trick performance in which the disputer attempts to make a case for a claim that everyone knows does not fit its object.

    School of Names Fraser, Chris 2005

  • The disputer could cite features of different kinds of things by which they could be treated as similar or features of things of the same kind by which they could be treated as different.

    School of Names Fraser, Chris 2005

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