disputant
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English [edit]
Etymology [edit]
Pronunciation [edit]
Noun [edit]
disputant (plural disputants)
- A participant in a dispute.
- 1893, Henry James, Collaboration [1]
- 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 [1]
Adjective [edit]
disputant (comparative more disputant, superlative most disputant)
- Disputing; engaged in controversy.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Milton to this entry?)
Catalan [edit]
Verb [edit]
disputant
- Present participle of disputar.
French [edit]
Verb [edit]
disputant
- Present participle of disputer.
Latin [edit]
Verb [edit]
disputant
- third-person plural present active indicative of disputō
