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Entry 1 sense Webster, 1913

Controversialist

· Con·tro·ver·sial·ist · IPA
01 n. One who carries on a controversy; a disputant.
  1. 1.
    One who carries on a controversy; a disputant.
    “He [Johnson] was both intellectually and morally of the stuff of which controversialists are made.” Macaulay.