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Definition of Debaters
1. debater [n] - See also: debater
Lexicographical Neighbors of Debaters
Literary usage of Debaters
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Manual of Debate by Ralph Wilmer Thomas (1910)
"The attitude of debaters toward each other should be courteous. ... Few debaters
deliberately misrepresent an opponent's position; many are unable exactly ..."
2. Imaginary Obligations by Frank Moore Colby (1908)
"OLD AND NEW debaters DURING the last few years we have plunged from one hot debate
into another, and if for a moment the excitement has subsided over here, ..."
3. The Cambridge Modern History by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton, Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero, Ernest Alfred Benians (1903)
"In order to save constant repetition of the names of the States represented by
deputies who took part in the debates, these debaters and their States will ..."
4. The history of England from the accession of James the second by Thomas Babington Macaulay (1867)
"any equal among the debaters there, and was prepared to exert all his powers
against the dynasty which he had lately served.* George Melville, Lord Melville ..."
5. Cyclopedia of American Government by Andrew Cunningham McLaughlin, Albert Bushnell Hart (1914)
"(1911), 404—428; CL Jones, Readings on Parties anil Elections (1912), ch. v; CE
Fanning, "Selected Articles on Election of US Senators" in debaters' ..."
6. The Works of Jeremy Bentham by Jeremy Bentham, John Bowring (1839)
"Of the Election of debaters. I proceed to point out a mode of reducing the number
of orators, in an assembly too numerous to allow the right of discussion ..."
7. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable: Giving the Derivation, Source, Or Origin of by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (1898)
"Order I When members of the House of Commons and other debaters call out Order,
they mean that the person speaking is transgressing the rules of the House. ..."
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