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▪ I. pamphleteer, n.|pæmflɪˈtɪə(r)|
Also 7 -etteer, -etere, etier, 7–8 -ettier.
[f. pamphlet n. + -eer1.]
A writer of pamphlets; the author of a pamphlet. (Often contemptuous.)
1642Vind. King 13 Seditious Preachers and Pamphletteers. 1642J. Taylor (Water P.) Seasonable Lect. title-p., Henry Walker,..a late Pamphletere, and now a double diligent Preacher. 1648Heylin Relat. & Observ. i. App. 12 Though you doe not speak plaine, your Pamphlettiers doe. 1771Junius Lett. liv. 288 That miserable pamphleteer..reduced his argument..to something like..a syllogism. 1847Tennyson Princ. Concl. 89 A patron of some thirty charities, A pamphleteer on guano and on grain. 1874Green Short Hist. iii. §i. 117 The pungent pen of the pamphleteer played its part in rousing the spirit of the nation.
▪ II. pamphleˈteer, v.
[f. prec. n.]
a. intr. To write and issue pamphlets. Also, to engage in propaganda involving the issue or distribution of pamphlets. Also fig. Chiefly in pamphleˈteering vbl. n. and ppl. a.
1698E. Ward Trip to Jamaica 3 The condition of an author is much like that of a strumpet... If the reason be requir'd Why we betake our selves to so scandalous a profession as whoring or pamphleteering, the same excusive answer will serve us both. 1715M. Davies Athen. Brit. I. Pref. 2 The Jesuitical Subornation of a Foot-Soldier's Pamphleteering against a Protestant Vicar. 1763Thacher in J. Adams' Diary 5 Feb., I pamphleteer for him again? No! I'll pamphleteer against him. 1815Edin. Rev. XXV. 188 Vulgar slander..eked out by pamphleteering declamation. 1883Brodrick in 19th Cent. 920 The coarse pamphleteering literature of which Swift and Junius produced the choicest specimens. 1897Granta 24 Apr. 264/2 The result..will be a compromise, which will permanently injure that future of women's education, which has been endangered enough already by the impatient folly of those who try to do a century's work in a week of garrulity and pamphleteering. 1930T. S. Eliot tr. St.-J. Perse's Anabasis 39 Let me go alone with the airs of the night, among the pamphleteering Princes. 1938E. Wilson Triple Thinkers 284 Long-range literature attempts to sum up wide areas and long periods of human experience... Short-range literature preaches and pamphleteers with the view to an immediate affect. 1943Sun (Baltimore) 22 June 1/4 OWI officials acknowledged that they have ‘pamphleteered’ several times in the past. 1976Time 27 Dec. 5/1 Since when is pamphleteering per se bad manners or bad art in theatre or film, with such historic examples as Ibsen, Shaw, Eisenstein and Odets?
b. trans. To influence or persuade by means of pamphlets. rare.
1944G. B. Shaw Everybody's Pol. What's What? iii. 29 The peasants and peasant soldiers, neither of them Communists, but all more or less talked and pamphleteered and journalized into believing that the Bolsheviks were the boys to give them land and peace. |