POLEMIC

a. n.

4 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
a.

Of or pertaining to controversy; maintaining, or involving, controversy; controversial; disputative; as, a polemic discourse or essay; polemic theology.

2.
a.

Engaged in, or addicted to, polemics, or to controversy; disputations; as, a polemic writer. South.

3.
n.

One who writes in support of one opinion, doctrine, or system, in opposition to another; one skilled in polemics; a controversialist; a disputant. The sarcasms and invectives of the young polemic. Macaulay.

4.
n.

A polemic argument or controversy.


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