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Definition of Polemical
1. Adjective. Of or involving dispute or controversy.
Definition of Polemical
1. a. Polemic; controversial; disputatious.
Definition of Polemical
1. Adjective. of, or relating to argument or controversy; polemic or contentious ¹
2. Adjective. aggressive in verbal attack; disputatious. ¹
3. Noun. A diatribe or polemic ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Polemical
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Polemical
Literary usage of Polemical
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Journal of Sacred Literature by John Kitto, Henry Burgess, Benjamin Harris Cowper (1848)
"Yet a definite polemical object on the part of John would not be thereby proved,
for when Christianity is brought forward in its purity, it always of itself ..."
2. The Journal of Sacred Literature by John Kitto, Henry Burgess, Benjamin Harris Cowper (1848)
"Yet a definite polemical object on the part of John would not be thereby proved,
for when Christianity is brought forward in its purity, it always of itself ..."
3. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"About the same time (1636-44) appeared poetical works in Greek and in Latin and
dissertations (often of a polemical nature) against Grotius, Saumaise, ..."
4. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1909)
"Of the polemical treatises, that against Marcion has entirely disappeared. ...
The polemical treatise against the Jews, though no such work is mentioned in ..."
5. The History of Christianity by Henry Hart Milman (1840)
"Nor does the tone of these polemical writings, by which alone we can judge of
the ancient heresies, of which their own accounts have almost entirely ..."
6. Theological Propædeutic: A General Introduction to the Study of Theology by Philip Schaff, Samuel Macauley Jackson (1893)
"Symbolic in its fullest extent implies a historical, polemical and ... The polemical
element consists in the argument for or against the doctrines in ..."
7. A Manual of Church History by Albert Henry Newman (1906)
"THE polemical PERIOD. There were polemical treatises in the preceding period.
Justin, eg, wrote extensively against heresies, ..."
8. Plato, and the Other Companions of Sokrates by George Grote (1888)
"All this is the personal, polemical, comic scope of the dialogue. ... But though
the polemical purpose of the dialogue is thus plain, its philosophical ..."
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