Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A controversialist; a polemic.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare A polemic.
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- noun A
polemicist
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- noun a writer who argues in opposition to others (especially in theology)
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Examples
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John Milton, England's great 17th century religious poet and political polemist, Milton, the puritan of puritans, writing bawdy poems?
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John Milton, England's great 17th century religious poet and political polemist, Milton, the puritan of puritans, writing bawdy poems?
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Supreme polemist perhaps, but a bit over the top sometimes.
"As was the case with Chavez's tendentious present, Ortega's speech was intended as a slap." Ann Althouse 2009
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Another source of inspiration was the Muslim theologian and polemist Ibn Hazm, whose anti-Jewish polemic inspired Ibn Daud's Biblical exegesis.
Abraham Ibn Daud Fontaine, Resianne 2006
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He was Marx-ian propagandist and polemist-in-chief, but not a revolutionary politician of the proletariat.
My Life Trotsky, Leon 1930
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Fléchier (1687-1710); the distinguished polemist Plantier (1855-75) whose pastoral letter (1873) called forth a protest from Bismarck; the preacher Besson (1875-88).
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip 1840-1916 1913
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While in this new valuation he still retains the character of a disputatious, puritanical polemist, erratic in conduct, surly in manner, irascible in temper, biting in speech, it invests him with a shrinking reluctance to adopt any action however radical without the approval of the congregation or its accredited representatives.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy 1840-1916 1913
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King of France under the name of Charles X; Spifame (1548-58) who became a Calvinist in 1559, and was afterwards accused of forgery and beheaded at Geneva in 1556; the polemist Sorbin de Ste-Foi
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913
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As a polemist Gagarin was thorough, and his work as a religious propagandist was of great importance.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913
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Nicephorus; Gregory Asbestus, former metropolitan of Syracuse and the consecrator of Photius; Eustratius, commentator on Aristotle and polemist under Alexius Comnenus; and Bessarion, afterwards cardinal.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip 1840-1916 1913
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