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Definition of Controversialist

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.

Meaning of Controversialist from wikipedia

- Polemic (/pəˈlɛmɪk/ pə-LEHM-ick, US also /-ˈlimɪk/ -⁠LEEM-ick) is contentious rhetoric intended to support a specific position by forthright claims and...
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- 12 May 1763(1763-05-12) (aged 77) Leicester Academic background Alma mater Jesus College, Cambridge Academic work School or tradition controversialist...
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- Anderton (1557 – 1613) was an English Roman Catholic lawyer, official and controversialist. In the first quarter of the seventeenth century, he published several...