make-debate

Definitions

Someone who instigates quarrels.

obsolete

Examples

“I will now pursue⟳ the Subject, and put⟳ the Case that you have⟳ no Proof that he is guilty, but your Surmizes, or, perhaps, the busy Whisperings of officious Make-debates. In this Case, take⟳ care, my Betsey, that you don't, by the Violence of your Passions, precipitate him on the Course you dread, and that you alienate not, by unjust Suspicions, his Affections from you; for then perhaps he will be ready indeed to place⟳ them somewhere else, where you may not so easily draw⟳ him off; for he will, may be, think⟳, as to you (if he be devoid of superior Considerations) that he may as well deserve⟳ your Suspicions, as be tiezed with them without deserving them.”

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