Definition of Polemically

1. Adverb. Involving controversy. "Criticism too polemically stated"

Exact synonyms: Controversially
Partainyms: Controversial, Polemic
Antonyms: Uncontroversially

Definition of Polemically

1. Adverb. In a polemical manner. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Polemically

1. [adv]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Polemically

polecat
polecat weed
polecats
poled
poledavies
poledavy
polehole
poleis
poleless
polelike
polemarch
polemarches
polemic
polemical
polemicall
polemically (current term)
polemicals
polemicise
polemicised
polemicises
polemicising
polemicist
polemicists
polemicize
polemicized
polemicizes
polemicizing
polemick
polemics
polemise

Literary usage of Polemically

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Science and the Gospel, Or, The Church and the Nations: A Series of Essays (1870)
"(2) polemically considered:— a. History, classification, and discussion of the errors and ... (2) polemically considered:— Christian social statics. ..."

2. Handbook of the History of Philosophy by Albert Schwegler (1868)
"... polemically against the principle of an absolute becoming ; in the Sophist polemically against the principle of abstract being; and in the Parmenides ..."

3. Handbook of the History of Philosophy by Albert Schwegler, James Hutchison Stirling (1867)
"... polemically against the principle of an absolute becoming ; in the Sophist polemically against the principle of abstract being ; and in the Parmenides ..."

4. The Baptist Quarterly Review by J R Baumes, Robert Stuart MacArtur, Henry C Vedder (1883)
"polemically; but he was forced by the power of argument and by his sense of the practical needs of men to reject the almost fatalistic views of his master. ..."

5. The Final Philosophy: Or, System of Perfectible Knowledge Issuing from the by Charles Woodruff Shields (1877)
"Roman Catholics at once reconstructed their theology, polemically, against Protestantism. The Council of Trent, repudiating the Reformation as a mere heresy ..."

6. Philosophia Ultima: Or, Science of the Sciences by Charles Woodruff Shields (1889)
"Roman Catholics at once reconstructed their theology, polemically, against Protestantism. The Council of Trent, repudiating the Reformation as a mere heresy ..."

7. Expositions by Samuel Cox (1887)
"to me, as it is also to you, both polemically and practically. polemically, it cuts both ways—against those who make too little ..."

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