Disputant [noun]

As it was useless arguing with so pertinacious a disputant we were compelled humbly to submit.

"After all, I only asked to work and to be at peace," he said aloud, as if in answer to some insistent disputant.

In conversation he was a singularly eager, acute and pertinacious disputant.

I must, however, allow that Mr. Henson is a courteous disputant, and I hope I shall reciprocate his good feeling.

Horne Tooke was a keen and shrewd disputant, well able to impress weaker natures.

Sinclair rose majestically from the presidential chair and turned his eyes from one disputant to the other.

The imperial presence, it was also judged, would restrain the boldest of them from resolving himself into a disputant.

And tell Dewint I shall become a disputant on the landscape.

But there is hardly anything that a ready disputant cannot turn to ridicule.

"Reste savoir," said I to myself, with the disputant at Nismes.