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propugner Now rare or Obs.|prəʊˈpjuːnə(r)| [f. propugn v. + -er1.] A defender, a champion; = propugnator.
1597J. King On Jonas (1618) 570 the daily exclamations of the Donatists in Africke against the Orthodoxe..was, that they were traitours against the holy books, and them⁓selues the propugners of them. 1691W. Nicholls Answ. Naked Gospel 96 These were the chief Propugners of this Heresie in the Primitive times. 1841Gallenga Italy II. v. i. 306 Dante found numberless propugners and disciples. |