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Meanings of disputant in English
Catalan
polemista Synonyms
Examples for "controversialist"
Examples for "controversialist"
1
True, he's better known as a level-headed host than a headstrong controversialist.
2
Was a great controversialist, a lifelong Democrat, and an enemy of Tammany.
3
A controversialist tends to want to smother contradiction in deceptively straightforward elegance.
4
The younger man did not present the appearance of a crushed controversialist.
5
Tonight's the night Ireland's chief controversialist aims to take on the establishment.
1
He belonged to the fighting class, and was further distinguished as a hero of debate, who professed the eristic art.
2
The philosophy which in the first and second generation was a great and inspiring effort of reflection, in the third becomes sophistical, verbal, eristic.
3
The Aneristic Principle is that of order, the Eristic Principle is that of disorder.
4
Here, then, is a double indication of the connexion of the Parmenides with the Eristic school.
5
But I still get confused about the differences between the Erisian, the Eristic and the Discordian.
Usage of disputant in English
1
The disputant who depends entirely upon a set speech is greatly handicapped.
2
The other disputant was German or Norwegian, and uninterested, though very kindly.
3
What was to be done with the remains of the unsuccessful disputant?
4
Flaubert may have been a better disputant; he had a talent for writing.
5
A wrangler and disputant threatening the other party with a law-suit:
6
Another is a file; and he is a disputant, a controversialist.
7
But the disputant caught hold of him when he started away.
8
In conversation, he was a singularly eager, acute, and pertinacious disputant.
9
But this perfervid disputant was not always out of key with his audience.
10
No disputant may employ counsel unless all agree to do so.
11
He had been smoking comfortably and with well-timed nods, impartially encouraging each disputant.
12
Gnulemah, with the serenity of a victorious disputant willing to make allowances, continued,-
13
Nor was the eager disputant long in affording him one.
14
I own it is a mean way of getting rid of a troublesome disputant.
15
We thought she was of Maine build, replied the disputant.
16
What was the use of arguing with such a disputant?
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