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impugner|ɪmˈpjuːnə(r)|
[f. impugn v. + -er1.]
One who impugns or assails.
1539Tonstall Serm. Palm Sund. (1823) 51 Redye to defende the faith ageynst the impugners of it. a1688Cudworth Immut. Mor. (1731) 223 Some of these Strenuous Impugners of Immaterial and Incorporeal Substances. 1712Berkeley Passive Obed. §38 A..prejudice which influenceth the impugners of non-resistance. 1818Hazlitt Eng. Poets iii. (1870) 80 The way to defend Milton against all impugners is to take down the book and read it. 1890Spectator 6 Sept., The impugners of the story..have failed to support their scepticism with anything that can properly be called evidence. |