oblocutor

English

Noun

oblocutor (plural oblocutors)

  1. A gainsayer; a critic.
    • 1838, John Foxe, The Acts and Monuments of John Foxe (page 511)
      […] the censure of the judges, the railing language of the oblocutor […]
    • 2017, Richard Seymour, Corbyn: The Strange Rebirth of Radical Politics (page xlii)
      In this, Labour was addressing the problems of twenty-first-century Britain, something that was already clear in Corbyn's 2015 leadership bid, but was largely ignored by his oblocutors.
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