controverter

From controvert +‎ -er.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɒntɹəˌvɜː(ɹ)tɚ/

controverter (plural controverters)

1. One who controverts; a controversial writer; a controversialist.
   • 1641, Ben Jonson, Discoveries:

     Some controverters in divinity are like swaggerers in a tavern.

• “controverter”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “controverter”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.