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  • noun Plural form of questionist.

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Examples

  • Some say that it was done to muzzle Mr. MacCallum Scott, hitherto one of the most pertinacious of questionists, who, as Mr. Churchill's private secretary, is now debarred by Parliamentary etiquette from the exercise of these inquisitorial functions.

    Mr. Punch's History of the Great War 1900

  • Most of the importunate questionists are on the other side:

    Mr. Punch's History of the Great War 1900

  • Besides this, we have already heard complaints of the undue extension of our studies, and of the strain put upon our questionists by the weight of learning which they try to carry with them into the Senate-House.

    Five of Maxwell's Papers James Clerk Maxwell 1855

  • "doleful questionists" exhume imaginary grievances or display their "nerve" by claiming the increase in pay recently granted to fighting men for conscientious objectors in the Non-Combatant Corps.

    Mr. Punch's History of the Great War 1900

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