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Webster 1913 Edition
disputant
dis′pu-tant
,Adj.
Disputing; engaged in controversy.
Milton.
dis′pu-tant
,Noun.
One who disputes; one who argues in opposition to another; one appointed to dispute; a controvertist; a reasoner in opposition.
A singularly eager, acute, and pertinacious
disputant
. Macaulay.
Webster 1828 Edition
Disputant
DISPUTANT
,Noun.
DISPUTANT
,Adj.
Definition 2024
disputant
disputant
English
Noun
disputant (plural disputants)
- A participant in a dispute.
- 1893, Henry James, Collaboration
- One of the liveliest scenes of the performance was the evening, last winter, on which I became aware that one of my compatriots – an American, my good friend Alfred Bonus – was engaged in a controversy somewhat acrimonious, on a literary subject, with Herman Heidenmauer, the young composer who had been playing to us divinely a short time before and whom I thought of neither as a disputant nor as an Englishman.
- 1893, Henry James, Collaboration
Adjective
disputant (comparative more disputant, superlative most disputant)
- Disputing; engaged in controversy.
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