"controversialist" meaning in English

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          "text": "Richard Dawkins has become a leading controversialist in a few areas."
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          "text": "1847-1886, James Crossley (editor), notes in The Diary and Correspondence of Dr. John Worthington\nHis indefatigable adversary, who is the perfect model of an agile controversialist, had attacked him as a magniloquent Thraso, on account of his Pansophical promises."
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        "One who regularly engages in public controversies."
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        {
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "one who regularly engages in public controversies",
          "word": "controversiste"
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        {
          "code": "ga",
          "lang": "Irish",
          "sense": "one who regularly engages in public controversies",
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          "word": "aighneasóir"
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          "code": "tr",
          "lang": "Turkish",
          "sense": "one who regularly engages in public controversies",
          "word": "tartışmacı"
        }
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  "word": "controversialist"
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  "etymology_text": "controversial + -ist",
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          "text": "Richard Dawkins has become a leading controversialist in a few areas."
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      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "one who regularly engages in public controversies",
      "word": "controversiste"
    },
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      "code": "ga",
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      "sense": "one who regularly engages in public controversies",
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      "word": "aighneasóir"
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      "sense": "one who regularly engages in public controversies",
      "word": "tartışmacı"
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  "word": "controversialist"
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