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controversialist

noun

Etymology

From controversial + -ist.

  1. borrowed from contrōversiālis
  2. suffixed as controversialist — “controversial + -ist”

Definitions

  1. One who regularly engages in public controversies.

    • Richard Dawkins has become a leading controversialist in a few areas.
    • 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.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA