Controversialist vs Controverter - What's the difference?
controversialist | controverter |
One who regularly engages in public controversies.
* John Worthington
One who controverts; a controversial writer; a controversialist.
As nouns the difference between controversialist and controverter
is that controversialist is one who regularly engages in public controversies while controverter is one who controverts; a controversial writer; a controversialist.controversialist
English
Noun
(en noun)- Richard Dawkins has become a leading controversialist in a few areas.
- 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.
controverter
English
Noun
(en noun)- Some controverters in divinity are like swaggerers in a tavern. — Ben Jonson.