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单词 refuter
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refutern.

Brit. /rᵻˈfjuːtə/, U.S. /rəˈfjudər/, /riˈfjudər/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: refute v., -er suffix1.
Etymology: < refute v. + -er suffix1.
A person who refutes an argument, theory, claim, etc.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > testing > refutation, disproof > [noun] > one who refutes
improver1566
refuter1583
confuter1589
confutant1642
refeller1652
disprover1682
exploder1776
confutator1849
invalidator1869
1583 W. Rainolds Refut. Sundry Reprehensions 116 You a Christian M.W. & dare thus to write? you a refuter of errors, & make this a light one?
1620 Bp. J. Hall Honor Married Clergie iii. ii. 264 No lesse vain is my Refuter, that spends many waste words [etc.].
1645 J. Milton Colasterion 2 I still was waiting, when these light arm'd refuters would have don pelting at thir three lines.
1711 Ld. Shaftesbury Characteristicks III. Misc. i. ii. 11 Some living Antagonist, who..pretends to..refute the Refuter upon every Article he has advanc'd.
1792 W. Huntington Answer to Fools 46 These are the refuters of error, who know no distinction between a grace of the Spirit and the God of all grace!
1816 Monthly Rev. June 151 To enlist himself among the refuters of those specious fallacies.
1876 J. S. Blackie Songs Relig. & Life 133 Forth then went that calm refuter, while they muttered spiteful wrath.
1890 C. W. R. Cooke Four Years in Parl. 60 An easy and effective exposure of them brings to the refuter some momentary credit.
1955 A. Fremantle Age of Belief xi. 205 Peter was..a disciple of St. Augustine, and a refuter of St. Thomas Aquinas, whom he regarded as an innovator.
2003 I. Lancaster Deconstructing Bible v. 89 One of the first systematic Muslim expositors and refuters of the theory of the eternity of the world.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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