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Propounder   Listen
noun
Propounder  n.  One who propounds, proposes, or offers for consideration.






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"Propounder" Quotes from Famous Books



... a baby, but I am sure she must have been born a propounder of questions, and a smiler at the answers she received. I daresay she used to ask questions—without result—long before she could talk, but I am quite sure she was not embittered by the lack of result. Nothing ever embittered Jay, not even her own pessimism. There is a ...
— This Is the End • Stella Benson

... slightest backwardness or diffidence when invited by the gentlemen to take wine. I answered every question with such fluency of speech, and such compound interest of words, as sometimes caused the propounder to regret that he had put me ...
— Frank Mildmay • Captain Frederick Marryat

... loose, where they may trip up the unwary. It is incumbent on any one who puts forward a hypothesis to apply it to as many special cases as possible, in order to see whether it works or not; and if the propounder of the hypothesis is so much in love with it that he fails to give it a thorough test, his scientific colleagues are sure to come to the rescue, for they, on the whole, would be rather pleased ...
— Psychology - A Study Of Mental Life • Robert S. Woodworth



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