disputant

dispute +‎ -ant

• (Canada) IPA^(key): /dəˈspjutənt/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /dɪˈspjuː.tənt/

• CA synth

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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.

disputant (comparative more disputant, superlative most disputant)

1. Disputing; engaged in controversy.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Milton to this entry?)

disputant

1. present participle of disputar

disputant

1. present participle of disputer

disputant

1. third-person plural present active indicative of disputō