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Webster 1913 Edition


disputant

dis′pu-tant

,
Adj.
[L.
disputants
, p. pr. of
disputare
: cf. F.
disputant
. See
Dispute
,
Verb.
I.
]
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.
One who disputes; one who argues in opposition to another; a controvertist; a reasoner in opposition.

DISPUTANT

,
Adj.
Disputing; engaged in controversy.

Definition 2024


disputant

disputant

English

Noun

disputant (plural disputants)

  1. 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.

Adjective

disputant (comparative more disputant, superlative most disputant)

  1. Disputing; engaged in controversy.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Milton to this entry?)

Catalan

Verb

disputant

  1. present participle of disputar

French

Verb

disputant

  1. present participle of disputer

Latin

Verb

disputant

  1. third-person plural present active indicative of disputō