polemist
- n a writer who argues in opposition to others (especially in theology)
- By his first morning in Havana, the ever combative polemist is professing his fury with Castro.
- He met Darwin in London, studied under Thomas Henry Huxley after that astute scientist and mighty polemist had delivered his evolutionary blast against Bishop Wilberforce.
- Finally the Ministry of Corporations goes to scintillant polemist and war veteran Giuseppe Bottai.