Meanings
plural oblocutors
- archaicA gainsayer; a critic.
[…]the censure of the judges, the railing language of the oblocutor[…]
1838 [1563], John Foxe, The Acts and Monuments of John Foxe, page 5111 more example
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.
2017 [2016 July], Richard Seymour, Corbyn: The Strange Rebirth of Radical Politics, page xlii
Origin
- Latinoblocūtor
- Latinoblocūtor
- Englishoblocutor
Learned borrowing from Latin oblocūtor. First attested in 1563.
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