Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who quarrels, wrangles, or fights.
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- noun One who
quarrels or is disposed to do so. Anarguer ordisputer .
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- noun a disputant who quarrels
Etymologies
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Examples
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Essence, and a quarreler with his best friend, dies like
Clarissa Harlowe 2006
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So goddamn the number eight eleven nine and four choir boys and monsignors preachers and men of state goddamn them it's too late free man and prisoner soft voice and quarreler
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He takes the quarreler apart into his library, and then one can hear a shouting voice alternating with silences.
Slightly Married Balogh, Mary 2003
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But a man is more ashamed to be a flatterer than a quarreler.
Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province Aquinas Thomas
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Reply Obj. 1: Just as the flatterer may do harm by deceiving secretly, so the quarreler may do harm sometimes by assailing openly.
Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province Aquinas Thomas
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Wouk takes on not only Feynman - "my kind of agnostic," he jokes-but also a couple of other Jewish physicists and Nobel laureates, Murray Gell-Mann ( "a Nobel-class tackler of problems, but for him the existence of God is not one of them") and Steven Weinberg ( "a quarreler with God in the vein of Job").
Articles webmaster@jewishjournal.com 2010
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Wouk takes on not only Feynman - "my kind of agnostic," he jokes-but also a couple of other Jewish physicists and Nobel laureates, Murray Gell-Mann ( "a Nobel-class tackler of problems, but for him the existence of God is not one of them") and Steven Weinberg ( "a quarreler with God in the vein of Job").
Articles webmaster@jewishjournal.com 2010
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His influence among the frontiersmen was unbounded, his word was law; and many are the personal quarrels and disturbances which he has checked among his comrades by his simple announcement that 'This has gone far enough,' ” if need be followed by the ominous warning that when persisted in or renewed the quarreler 'must settle it with me.'
The Life of Hon William F Cody Cody, William F 1879
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