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Definition of Controverter
1. n. One who controverts; a controversial writer; a controversialist.
Definition of Controverter
1. Noun. One who controverts; a controversial writer; a controversialist. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Controverter
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Controverter
Literary usage of Controverter
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley in Verse and Prose, Now First Brought by John Todhunter, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Harry Buxton Forman (1880)
"... and time, that infallible controverter of false opinions, has involved its
pretended evidences in the darkness of antiquity, it will become obsolete; ..."
2. Allen's Synonyms and Antonyms by Frederic Sturges Allen (1920)
"Antonyms: see AGREEING, COMPLAISANT. disputant, n. disputer, contestant (contextual),
contender (contextual), controversialist, controverter, ..."
3. A Dictionary of the English Language by Samuel Johnson, John Walker, Robert S. Jameson (1828)
"To debate ; to dispute anything in writing. controverter, (kon-tro-ver'-ter) ».
t. A disputant. CONTROVERTIBLE, (kçn-tro-veil'-e-bl) a. Disputable. ..."
4. Historical Introduction to the Private Law of Rome by James Muirhead, Henry Goudy (1899)
"demanding a rehearing of the case; he appeared rather as a controverter in his
own name of the right of the creditor to proceed further with his execution, ..."
5. The Panoplist, and Missionary Magazine United (1809)
"He must, on the whole, be ranked not only among the greatest but the best of men.
The ablest controverter of his system of church government, ..."
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