makebate \MEYK-beyt\, noun:
A person who causes contention or discord.
The man was a hater of the great Governor and his life-work, the Erie; a makebate, a dawplucker, a malcontent politicaster.
-- Samuel Hopkins Adams, Grandfather Stories
But after all he pays well that pays with gold; and Mike Lambourne was never a makebate, or a spoil-sport, or the like.
-- Sir Walter Scott, Kenilworth
Makebate stems from the Middle English word bate which meant "contention".
一個人，誰引起爭議或分歧。
該名男子是一個偉大的總督和他的生活，工作，伊利的仇敵;一個makebate，一個dawplucker，不滿者politicaster。
- 塞繆爾·霍普金斯·亞當斯，爺爺的故事
但他畢竟支付金支付;麥克Lambourne是從來沒有一個的makebate，或掠物運動，或喜歡。
- 沃爾特·斯科特爵士，凱尼爾沃思
makebate源自中古英語的意思是“爭”字軟化。
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