Controversialist Definition

Controversialist Sentence Examples

• The latter work was attacked by Burnet and others, but the author showed himself as keen a controversialist as ever.

• His sermons attracted wide attention in that community, and he gained a considerable reputation as a theologian and a controversialist by his publication in 1814 of a volume entitled Defence of Christianity, written in answer to a work, The Grounds of Christianity Examined (1813), by George Bethune English (1787-1828), an adventurer, who, born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, was in turn a student of law and of theology, an editor of a newspaper, and a soldier of fortune in Egypt.

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

• At the end of the century Isaac ben Moses, called Profiat Duran (Efodi), is chiefly known as an antiChristian controversialist (letter to Me'ir Alguadez), but also wrote on grammar (Ma`aseh Efod) and a commentary on the Moreh.

• Ignatius was no controversialist; and the Moor rode off victorious.