gladiatorship

What I say is, he that is emancipated never indulges in that intellectual gladiatorship which is implied by a dialectical disputation for the sake of victory.

The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli

They are from the _Athenaeum_ of last week, which, by the way, has more of the intellectual gladiatorship in its columns than any of its critical contemporaries.

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 17, No. 479, March 5, 1831 Various

La Calprenède, as we have seen, does not give Arminius's wife her usual name of Thusnelda, but, to obviate a complaint from readers who have heard of Varus, he invents a protest on "Herman sla lerman" part against that general, who has trepanned him into captivity and gladiatorship, and makes him warn Augustus that he will be true to the Romans _unless_

A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 George Saintsbury 1889

I cannot convey to you who know him now -- with his careworn face and abrupt, dry manner, reduced by perpetual gladiatorship to the skin and bone of his former self -- what that man was when he first stepped into the arena of life.

The Caxtons — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

The gentlemen, nowadays, seldom look to us for intellectual gladiatorship; they are content that our weakness should shield us from the war.

Guy Rivers: A Tale of Georgia William Gilmore Simms 1838

I cannot convey to you who know him now -- with his careworn face and abrupt, dry manner, reduced by perpetual gladiatorship to the skin and bone of his former self -- what that man was when he first stepped into the arena of life.

The Caxtons — Volume 07 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

It is no wonder that this sort of friendly intellectual gladiatorship is

The Spirit of the Age Contemporary Portraits William Hazlitt 1804

Oh sure, the boxing was kind of fun to watch (as much as I hate to enjoy it … what can I say, I’m a fan of forms of gladiatorship, even when they are rife with disgusting amounts of - isms), and Hillary Swank is Hillary Swank.

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“It is within our personal knowledge,” he says, “that he was an extraordinary youth when, in 1824, he took the lead at the London Debating Club in one of the most remarkable collections of 'spirits of the age' that ever congregated for intellectual gladiatorship, he being by two or three years the junior of the clique.

John Stuart Mill; His Life and Works Spencer, Herbert 1873

"It is within our personal knowledge," he says, "that he was an extraordinary youth when, in 1824, he took the lead at the London Debating Club in one of the most remarkable collections of 'spirits of the age' that ever congregated for intellectual gladiatorship, he being by two or three years the junior of the clique.

John Stuart Mill; His Life and Works Twelve Sketches by Herbert Spencer, Henry Fawcett, Frederic Harrison, and Other Distinguished Authors Herbert Spencer 1861