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n. - A debater who refutes or disproves by offering contrary evidence or argument.

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Usage examples (6)
  • &c. But instar omnium, the most copious confuter of atheists is Marinus Mercennus in his
  • THE youthful confuter of Locke was despatched to Merton School, and ranked, according to his merits, as lag of the penultimate form.
  • Oracle doctrine of the fathers, -- there is a still more flagrant argument against the fathers, which it is perfectly confounding to find both them and their confuter...
  • In order to detect the fallacy, the proposition thus silently assumed must be supplied; but the reasoner, most likely, has never really asked himself what he was assuming; his...
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