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English
Etymology
From controversial + -ist.
Noun
controversialist (plural controversialists)
- One who regularly engages in public controversies.
- Richard Dawkins has become a leading controversialist in a few areas.
- 1847-1886, James Crossley (editor), notes in The Diary and Correspondence of Dr. John Worthington
- 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.
- 2003, Roy Porter, Flesh in the Age of Reason, Ch.9, at p.149:
- In the early 1700s Swift spent much of his time in London, where he wormed his way into the company of coffee-house wits and politicians, and, beginning to publish political tracts, won a reputation as a controversialist.
Translations
one who regularly engages in public controversies