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Controversialist

Controversialist \Con`tro*ver"sial*ist\, n. One who carries on a controversy; a disputant.

He [Johnson] was both intellectually and morally of the stuff of which controversialists are made.
--Macaulay.

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controversialist

n. One who regularly engages in public controversies.

WordNet
controversialist

n. a person who disputes; who is good at or enjoys controversy [syn: disputant, eristic]

Usage examples of "controversialist".

Most controversialists who have opposed the Jesuits assert that the Indians of the missions were, in reality, half slaves.

The existence of ghouls has been disputed by that class of controversialists who are more concerned to deprive the world of comforting beliefs than to give it anything good in their place.