controvertist
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English
Etymology
From controvert + -ist.
Pronunciation
Noun
controvertist (plural controvertists)
- One skilled in or given to controversy; a controversialist.
- 1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], “The Author’s Oeconomy and Happy Life among the Houyhnhnms. ”, in Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. , volume II, London: Benj Motte, , →OCLC, part IV (A Voyage to the Houyhnhnms), page 301:
- […] here were no Gibers, Cenſurers, Backbiters, Pick-pockets, Highwaymen, Houſebreakers, Attorneys, Bawds, Buffoons, Gameſters, Politicians, Wits, ſplenetick tedious Talkers, Controvertiſts, Raviſhers, Murderers, Robbers, Virtuoſo's; […]
- 1789, George Campbell, The Four Gospels, Translated from the Greek:
- How unfriendly is the controvertist to the discernment of the critic!
References
- “controvertist, n.”, in OED Online
, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000. - “controvertist”, in Collins English Dictionary.
- “controvertist”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
