Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The art or practice of argumentation or controversy.
- noun The practice of theological controversy to refute errors of doctrine.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The art or practice of disputation; controversy; specifically, that branch of theology which is concerned with the history or conduct of ecclesiastical controversy: the word more particularly denotes offensive as distinguished from defensive controversy: opposed to irenics.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The art or practice of disputation or controversy, especially on religious subjects; that branch of theological science which pertains to the history or conduct of ecclesiastical controversy.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The art or practice of making
arguments orcontroversies - noun The
refutation oferrors intheological doctrine - noun Plural form of
polemic .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the branch of Christian theology devoted to the refutation of errors
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Examples
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To use “The Innocents Abroad” in polemics is thus a bit weird.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Genetic Evidence Shows Common Origins of Jews 2010
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What distinguished certain polemics from the purely theological discussions of the period (Abelard, Peter Lombard, Peter the Chanter, Robert of Courson, Guido de Orchellis) was the occasional explicit acknowledgment of real anxiety over the potential death of the child.
A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005
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The Webkit team, as a rhizomatic offshoot from Apple, has a similar development pedigree and has consistently produced a high quality — now cross-platform — open source project, nary engaging in polemics or politics.
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A constant refrain of anti-war polemics is that Messrs. Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld et al. had no “plan” for Iraq.
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What I find kind of funny about your polemics is that your tribalism is misaligned.
Sound Politics: Darcy Burner Wants More Rights for Terrorists 2006
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The empirical argument over whether there is a culture war is often lost in polemics about which side one should take — assuming, of course, that there is a war.
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The empirical argument over whether there is a culture war is often lost in polemics about which side one should take — assuming, of course, that there is a war.
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The empirical argument over whether there is a culture war is often lost in polemics about which side one should take — assuming, of course, that there is a war.
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What I find kind of funny about your polemics is that your tribalism is misaligned.
Sound Politics: Darcy Burner Wants More Rights for Terrorists 2006
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Similarly, when preparing the edition of 1846, while Disraeli cut the polemics from the Preface, he still left intact most of the notes, and even permitted Alroy to be reissued at the same time that he published the political
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