Definition of Controversialist

1. Noun. A person who disputes; who is good at or enjoys controversy.


Definition of Controversialist

1. n. One who carries on a controversy; a disputant.

Definition of Controversialist

1. Noun. One who regularly engages in public controversies. ¹

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Controversialist

controllingness
controlment
controlments
controls
contronym
contronyms
controul
controull
controuls
controversal
controversary
controverse
controverser
controversers
controversial
controversialist
controversialists
controversiality
controversially
controversialness
controversies
controversion
controversor
controversors
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controvert
controverted
controverter
controverters
controvertible

Literary usage of Controversialist

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"1136, to Andrew Mac- Father Maguire, a well-known controversialist, died Brady, consecrated in 1445, the bishops of this see were parish priest of the ..."

2. A Beginner's History of Philosophy by Herbert Ernest Cushman (1911)
"As Controversialist (1691-1704). Locke then began to write upon almost every conceivable subject, — the coming of silver money, the raising of the value of ..."

3. A Manual of Church History by Albert Henry Newman (1903)
"Calvin as a Controversialist. Reference has already been made to the local conflicts in which Calvin was engaged. It would have been impossible for a man of ..."

4. Lives of the Fathers: Sketches of Church History in Biography by Frederick William Farrar (1889)
"... V Continued TERTULLIAN AS AN ORTHODOX Controversialist SECTION IV IT was a happy thing for Tertullian that his later works rendered a real service to ..."

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