oblocutor
nounUS /ɑbˈlɑkjətɚ/ · UK /ɒbˈlɒkjətə/
Etymology Learned borrowing from Latin oblocūtor. First attested in 1563.
1
Archaic A 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 511:
- 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:
- Related terms
- interlocutor, obloquious, obloquy