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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

- can be arranged. The badge and symbol of the Controversialists is a purple lyre. The Controversialists commonly organise smoking concerts where poetry...
- Polemic (/pəˈlɛmɪk/ pə-LEHM-ick, US also /-ˈlimɪk/ -⁠LEEM-ick) is contentious rhetoric intended to support a specific position by forthright claims and...
- Restoration literature is the English literature written during the historical period commonly referred to as the English Restoration (1660–1688), which...
- the grandson of Thomas Henry Huxley, the zoologist, agnostic, and controversialist who had often been called "Darwin's Bulldog". His brother Julian Huxley...
- Bainbridge or Bembridge) D.D. (1636–1703), was an English Protestant controversialist. Bainbrigg was the son of Richard and Rose Bainbrigg, born at Cambridge...
- John Rogers (1679–1729) was an English clergyman. The son of John Rogers, vicar of Eynsham, Oxford, he was born there. He was educated at New College School...
- 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...
- Robert Pugh (1610–1679) was a Welsh Jesuit priest and controversialist. He was one of the several sons of Philip Pugh of Penrhyn, in the parish of Eglwys-Ross...
- John Jones (1700 – 8 August 1770) was a Welsh clergyman and controversialist. He was the compiler of Free and Candid Disquisitions, an anonymously published...
- evolutionary, yet a 'horrid bore' – at least partly so that the clamorous controversialists, fighting about apes and angels and souls, would leave him... alone"...