Opposer vs Disputant - What's the difference?
opposer | disputant | Related terms |
A participant in a dispute.
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Opposer is a related term of disputant.
As nouns the difference between opposer and disputant
is that opposer is one who opposes, one who shows opposition while disputant is a participant in a dispute.As an adjective disputant is
disputing; engaged in controversy.disputant
English
Noun
(en noun)- 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.