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plural controversialists
One who regularly engages in public controversies. quotations examples
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.
1847-1886, James Crossley (editor), notes in The Diary and Correspondence of Dr. John Worthington