propugnern.
/prə(ʊ)ˈpjuːnə/, U.S. /prəˈpjunər/, /proʊˈpjunər/ Now rare.
A defender, a champion; a vigorous advocate.
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the world > action or operation > easiness > aid, help, or assistance > support > support or encouragement > [noun] > supporter or encourager > and stoutly defends
champion138.
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1593 A. Willet Tetrastylon Papisticum iv. 170 I doe not take vpon mee to bee a champion, or professed propugnor of our faith.
1597 Bp. J. King Lect. Ionas xlii. 571 The dailie exclamation of the Donatistes in Africke against the Orthodoxe..was, that they were traitours against the holy bookes and themselues the propugners of them.
1621 R. Montagu Diatribæ Hist. Tithes 238 A Patron and propugner of niggardise and wretchednesse in the seruice of God.
1691 W. Nicholls Answer Naked Gospel 96 These were the chief Propugners of this Heresie in the Primitive times.
1706 J. Gordon Charitable Observ. 74 He instantly imagined, that one of those Litigants was an Oppugner and the other a Propugner of Episcopacy.
1732 P. C. Let. Author Vindic. Mr. Nation’s Serm. 39 When I was a Propugner of the Mosaical Law against Christ's Reformation.
1841 ‘L. Mariotti’ Italy: Gen. Views Hist. & Lit. II. v. i. 306 Dante found numberless propugners and disciples.
1969 Phoenix 23 195 It is with relief, one senses, that its propugners turn to what superficially seems an irrefutable argument.
2000 Internet Lawyer (Nexis) Mar. Ken is my own real live idea hamster, my Paladin, my propugner.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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