objector

Definition

A person who objects to something.

Etymology

Partly from Latin obiector and partly from object + -or.

Example Sentences

• ""It would be amusing, sir, to shut these various objectors up in a room and let them settle it among themselves.""
• "The Fife County Council, and other objectors, were successful in July [1950] in obtaining an interim interdict against this decision, but the Court of Session withdrew the interdict in January, and it was then stated that a civil court had no jurisdiction in the matter."
• "But almost always such words are irreversibly established before the objectors learn of their existence, and the objections are hardly more than academic exercises."

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