controversialist

Noun

 * 1) One who regularly engages in public controversies.
 * Richard Dawkins has become a leading controversialist in a few areas.
 * 1) * 1847-1886, (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.

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 * Irish: aighneasóir
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