controvertist
- a word derived from controvert.
Example Sentences
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What an easy time of it must such an all-sufficient controvertist have!
From Reason and Faith; Their Claims and Conflicts From The Edinburgh Review, October 1849, Volume 90, No. CLXXXII. (Pages 293-356) by Rogers, Henry
For that which we have among his writings, is the performance of some other Catholic controvertist of the same age, as the learned agree.
From The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March by Butler, Alban
He became a prominent member of the whig party, and was everywhere known as the brilliant orator and successful controvertist of the Scott campaign of 1852.
From Oration on the Life and Character of Henry Winter Davis by Creswell, John A. J.
Their manners were somewhat coarse, but their conversation was instructive, and their disputations acute, though sometimes too violent, and often continued, till neither controvertist remembered, upon what question they began.
From Dr. Johnson's Works: Life, Poems, and Tales, Volume 1 The Works of Samuel Johnson, Ll.D., in Nine Volumes by Johnson, Samuel
I look upon him now as a controvertist only.
