Polemic Definition

pə-lĕmĭk
polemical, polemics
noun
polemics
An argument or controversial discussion.
Webster's New World
A person inclined to engage in argument or disputation.
Webster's New World
A strong verbal or written attack on someone or something.
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adjective
Of or relating to a controversy, argument, or refutation.
American Heritage
Of or involving dispute; controversial.
Webster's New World
Argumentative; disputatious.
Webster's New World
Having the characteristics of a polemic.
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Other Word Forms of Polemic

Noun

Singular:
polemic
Plural:
polemics

Origin of Polemic

  • From French polémique, from Ancient Greek πολεμικός (polemikós, “of war"), from πόλεμος (pólemos, “war")

    From Wiktionary

  • French polémique from Greek polemikos hostile from polemos war

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Polemic Sentence Examples

  • To this period belongs his first crude literary effort, a polemic against a Genevese pastor who had criticized Rousseau.

  • His polemic skill earned for him the title of the "Column of the Portico."

  • Its polemic against the philosophy of experience has exposed it to general misunderstanding, as though it claimed some a priori path to truth.

  • Secondly, it contains no polemic against Christianity, to the doctrines of which, in fact, there is no allusion.

  • During these years the religious and political ideas of the Reformation were rapidly gaining ground, and, aided by a vigorous and violent polemic literature, opposition to Rome was growing on every side.

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Words Starting With

PPOPOL

Words Ending With

CICMIC

Unscrambles

polemic

Words Starting With P and Ending With C

Starts With P & Ends With CStarts With PO & Ends With CStarts With P & Ends With IC

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7 Letter Words7 Letter Words Starting With P7 Letter Words Ending With C