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polemics Definition

po·lem·ics (pō lemiks, pə-)

noun

the art or practice of disputation or controversy

Etymology: see polemic & -ics

polemics Synonyms

polemics

n.

polemics Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • avoid: Avoid polemics, triviality, and weak theoretical comparisons in your discussion.
  • write: Add Chomsky on the Spanish Revolution and we have one of the foremost polemics ever written.

Adjective modifier

  • religious: By 1907 Machen was seriously interested in writing again, but much more interested in quasi religious polemics than in fiction.

Noun used with modifier

  • pamphlet: The conventions developed from the scholastic disputatio and, especially, the pamphlet polemics of the Wars of Religion.