propugner

English

Etymology

From propugn +‎ -er.

Noun

propugner (plural propugners)

1. (archaic) A defender; a vindicator.
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     zealous propugners

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “propugner”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Latin

Verb

prōpugner

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of prōpugnō