controversialist

English

Etymology

From controversial +‎ -ist.

Noun

controversialist (plural controversialists)

  1. 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.
    • 2003, Roy Porter, Flesh in the Age of Reason, Ch.9, at p.149:
      In the early 1700s Swift spent much of his time in London, where he wormed his way into the company of coffee-house wits and politicians, and, beginning to publish political tracts, won a reputation as a controversialist.

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