controversialist's Usage Examples:

The Quakers had always been active controversialists, and a great body of tracts and papers was issued by them; but hitherto these had been of small account from a literary point of view.

John Mayr of Eck, a noted controversialist and professor of theology in the university of Ingolstadt, scented the Hussite heresy in the Theses, and denounced them in a tract entitled Obelisks.

This was the eccentric Reginald Pecock of Chichester, who, while setting himself to confute Lollard controversialists, lapsed into heresy by setting reason above authority.

The fault of the controversialists on both sides has been that each party has only seen "one side of the shield.

He was an extremely vigorous controversialist, and his Latin abounds in denunciatory epithets.

; t ton, Cbrs amo ?ooD `o Calne?His numerous polemical writings include A Defense of the sincere true Translations of the holie Scriptures into the English tong (London, 1583), and confutations of Thomas Stapleton (1535-1598), Cardinal Allen and other Roman Catholic controversialists.

Apart from his redoubtable powers as a controversialist, Philoxenus deserves commemoration as a scholar, an elegant writer, and an exponent of practical Christianity.

The movement may be said to have begun about 1601, when the great Jesuit preacher and controversialist, Peter Pazmany, first devoted himself to the task of reconverting his countrymen.

CASPAR SCHOPPE (1576-1649), German controversialist and scholar, was born at Neumarkt in the upper Palatinate on the 27th of May 1576 and studied at several German universities.

The canonization of oral tradition in the Mishnah brought the advantages and the disadvantages of a legal religion, and controversialists have usually seen only one side.

True there are, as always, Jewish controversialists.

He quickly became known as a political and ecclesiastical controversialist, wielding an active pen in support of W.

Synonyms:

denier, soul, logomachist, debater, someone, logomach, mortal, social reformer, accuser, contester, thwarter, meliorist, resister, eristic, somebody, reformist, person, reformer, obstructer, obstructionist, crusader, obstructor, individual, arguer, quarreller, disputant, quarreler, hairsplitter,

Antonyms:

fat person, introvert, good guy, acquaintance, male,