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Another word for agitator

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agitator

n.

instigator, fomenter, reformer, revolutionary, radical, revisionist, anarchist, rabble-rouser, demagogue, dogmatist, malcontent, disrupter, heretic, fighter, propagandist, ringleader, stormy petrel, zealous advocate, firebrand, incendiary, soapbox orator, active supporter, active partisan, ardent champion, exciter of public debate, troublemaker, agent, provocateur, agent provocateur (both French), organizer, sans-culotte, dissident, fifth columnist*; see also conservative, radical, rebel 1.

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Another word for agitator

noun

One who agitates, especially politically:

fomenter, inciter, instigator. See calm, change, politics

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Nansen used all the arts of the agitator with extraordinary energy and success.
"Now that I am a deputy, I will cease to be an agitator," he said.
The strength of classical reminiscence and the instinct of liberty were reinforced by the support given to communal aspirations by the popular agitator and dangerous tribune, Arnold of Arnold of Brescia, whose theories arrived at an opportune Brescia.
Up to 1870 he remained an agitator, but, after the liberation of Rome, seceded from the historic left, and became leader of the extreme left, a position held until his death on the 30th of April 1886.
In 1899 he qualified as a lawyer, and speedily became a prominent agitator on the extreme Left wing of the Socialist party.

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