Definition of Controversialists. Meaning of Controversialists. Synonyms of Controversialists

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Definition of Controversialists

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 Controversialists from wikipedia

- Bainbridge or Bembridge) D.D. (1636–1703), was an English Protestant controversialist. Bainbrigg was the son of Richard and Rose Bainbrigg, born at Cambridge...
- Polemic (/pəˈlɛmɪk/ pə-LEHM-ick, US also /-ˈlimɪk/ -⁠LEEM-ick) is contentious rhetoric intended to support a specific position by forthright claims and...
- can be arranged. The badge and symbol of the Controversialists is a purple lyre. The Controversialists commonly organise smoking concerts where poetry...
- Thomas Lupton (fl. 1572–1584) was an English polemical writer of the reign of Elizabeth I. His two-part work Siuqila of 1580–1 could be described as "the...
- Thomas Lewis (1689–in or after 1737) was an English cleric, noted as a vitriolic High Church writer of the Bangorian controversy. The son of Stephen Lewis...
- Richard Sheldon (died 1642?) was a Church of England clergyman, a convert from Catholicism, known as a polemical writer. From a Catholic family, and destined...
- George Ashwell (1612 – 1694) was an Anglican polemic controversialist. Ashwell was born in the parish of St. Martin Ludgate, 8 November 1612. He was the...
- John Jones (1700 – 8 August 1770) was a Welsh clergyman and controversialist. He was the compiler of Free and Candid Disquisitions, an anonymously published...
- Restoration literature is the English literature written during the historical period commonly referred to as the English Restoration (1660–1688), which...
- Thomas Wright (d. 1624?), was an English Roman Catholic controversialist, who was ordained priest in the reign of Queen Mary, and became one of the readers...