controversialist
English
Etymology
controversial + -ist
Noun
controversialist (plural controversialists)
- One who regularly engages in public controversies.
- Richard Dawkins has become a leading controversialist in a few areas.
- 1847-1886, James Crossley (editor), notes in The Diary and Correspondence of Dr. John Worthington
- His indefatigable adversary, who is the perfect model of an agile controversialist, had attacked him as a magniloquent Thraso, on account of his Pansophical promises.
Translations
one who regularly engages in public controversies
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