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Definition of Polemists
1. polemist [n] - See also: polemist
Lexicographical Neighbors of Polemists
Literary usage of Polemists
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Cambridge Modern History by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton, Ernest Alfred Benians, George Walter Prothero, Sir Adolphus William Ward (1907)
"Declamatory journalists, editors of such organs as the Drapeau Blanc, the
Bibliotheque. Catholique, eloquent and dogmatic polemists, ..."
2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1911)
"... Urban V. a sermon on reform in the church, so severe in its arraignment that
it was often brought forward in the loth century by Protestant polemists. ..."
3. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"He also did much valuable work in the missionary field, and engaged in controversy
in the public press with some aggressive polemists of the Episcopal and ..."
4. The Monist by Hegeler Institute (1892)
"... the results of the studies on Buddhism, and to present it "such as science
has proved it, that is to say very different from what Christian polemists, ..."
5. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1911)
"Lukas Osiander (qv) was one of the most passionate polemists of the period.
The two preachers named Johann Benedikt Carpzov (qv) were scholastic in type; ..."
6. A History of American Literature Since 1870 by Fred Lewis Pattee (1915)
"... on its pilgrimage, and the truth has found more aid from them than from all
the grave polemists and solid writers that have ever spoken or written. ..."
7. A History of American Literature Since 1870 by Fred Lewis Pattee (1915)
"... on its pilgrimage, and the truth has found more aid from them than from all
the grave polemists and solid writers that have ever spoken or written. ..."
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