controversialist

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People had begun to think of him as a controversialist, acute, keen, and persevering, occupied with his personal wrongs and schemes of attack and defence.

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  1. One who carries on a controversy; a disputant. What shall we say to a controversialist who attributes to the subject of his attack opinions which are notoriously not his? Huxley, Nineteenth Century, XXI. 494.

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  • [1] He was obliged to become controversialist, jurist, exegetist, and theologian. —  The Life of Jesus
  • While a born controversialist, and strong in his convictions, he was glad to work with Christians of any name in building up the kingdom of God in the world. —  Personal Recollections of Pardee Butler
  • He was a man of very extensive learning in the earlier and later Scholastic theology of the Church; he was a sharp-witted and ready controversialist, and he knew how to use his weapons in disputations. —  Life of Luther
  • I knew he had the reputation of being a first-class controversialist, and I was quite aware that if he played his cards properly, we should have little chance, with such an audience, of making an efficient defence. —  The Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley V.1
  • Limbaugh the controversialist is (of course) happy to be a martyr to his cause. —  newmatilda.com - Comments
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