What is another word for Controverter?

Pronunciation: [kˌɒntɹəvˈɜːtə] (IPA)

Controverter is a term that is not widely used in everyday language. However, there are several synonyms that can be used to convey a similar meaning. Some of these synonyms include challenger, disputant, opponent, antagonist, rival, and dissenter. These terms can be used to describe individuals who engage in debates or arguments with others, particularly with the aim of refuting their arguments or proving them wrong. Whether in the context of politics, philosophy, or any other field, those who engage in controversy often bring out the best in each other, sharpening their arguments and ideas in the process.

What are the hypernyms for Controverter?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

Usage examples for Controverter

Analogy seems to favour the opinion that as, like other systems, Christianity has arisen and augmented, so like them it will decay and perish; that as violence, darkness, and deceit, not reasoning and persuasion, have procured its admission among mankind, so, when enthusiasm has subsided, and time, that infallible Controverter of false opinions, has involved its pretended evidences in the darkness of antiquity, it will become obsolete; that Milton's poem alone will give permanency to the remembrance of its absurdities; and that men will laugh as heartily at grace, faith, redemption, and original sin, as they now do at the metamorphoses of Jupiter, the miracles of Romish saints, the efficacy of witchcraft, and the appearance of departed spirits.
"The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley Volume III"
Percy Bysshe Shelley Edited by Thomas Hutchinson, M. A.

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