oblocutor
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English[edit]
Noun[edit]
oblocutor (plural oblocutors)
- A gainsayer; a critic.
- 1838, John Foxe, The Acts and Monuments of John Foxe, page 511:
- […] the censure of the judges, the railing language of the oblocutor […]
- 2017, Richard Seymour, Corbyn: The Strange Rebirth of Radical Politics, page xlii:
- In this, Labour was addressing the problems of twenty-first-century Britain, something that was already clear in Corbyn's 2015 leadership bid, but was largely ignored by his oblocutors.