pamphleteern.
/ˌpamflᵻˈtɪə/, U.S. /ˌpæmfləˈtɪ(ə)r/ A writer of pamphlets, esp. of a polemical nature; the author of a pamphlet.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > non-fiction > treatise or dissertation > [noun] > small > writing of > one who
pamphleter1583
pamphleteer1614
pamphlet-writer1735
leaflet writer1869
leafleteer1892
1614 R. Brathwait Schollers Medley 17 So should our prophane Pamphleteers restraine their libidinous writings more.
1648 C. Walker Relations & Observ. i. App. 12 Though you doe not speak plaine, your Pamphlettiers doe.
1682 Loyal London Mercury 14 June 1 Whigism and Torism, as they are either of them extreamly practised and fomented by the Pamphleteers.
1709 Tatler No. 88. ⁋7 The Squibs are those who in the common Phrase of the World are call'd Libellers, Lampooners and Pamphleteers.
1746 B. Franklin in Pennsylvania Gaz. 31 July 3/1 Whole Armies of invidious Preachers and Pamphleteers; under whose Performances, the Pulpits and Presses..have groaned.
1806 T. S. Surr Winter in London III. ix. 247 A hireling pamphleteer and paragraphist.
1874 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People iii. §1 117 The pungent pen of the pamphleteer played its part in rousing the spirit of the nation.
1955 Times 27 Aug. 6/1 A frequent broadcaster and pamphleteer in favour of the all-German talks.
2001 J. Ellroy Cold Six Thousand xiii. 76 The union is run by Wayne Tedrow Sr. (b. 1905), a conservative pamphleteer.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
pamphleteerv.
/ˌpamflᵻˈtɪə/, U.S. /ˌpæmfləˈtɪ(ə)r/ 1. intransitive. To write and issue pamphlets; to engage in propaganda by means of pamphlets. Also figurative.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > non-fiction > treatise or dissertation > write treatise or dissertation [verb (intransitive)] > write (a) pamphlet(s)
pamphleteer1763
pamphletize1828
the mind > will > motivation > persuasion > persuade [verb (intransitive)] > propagandize
propagandize1848
propagand1850
pamphleteer1938
1763 J. Adams Diary 5 Feb. (1961) I. 236 I pamphleteer for him again? No. Ile pamphleteer against him.
1873 Chambers's Encycl. 483/2 In the struggle between Pitt and Fox, he pamphleteered on the side of the former.
1922 K. Burke Let. 13 Mar. in Sel. Corr. K. Burke & M. Cowley (1988) 116 Christ, give me five good issues in which to pamphleteer to my heart's content.
1938 E. 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.
1992 Economist 8 Feb. 44/3 He has been putting out his message by pamphleteering on foot rather than renting the airwaves.
2. transitive. To influence or persuade by means of pamphlets.
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the mind > will > motivation > persuasion > persuade (a person) [verb (transitive)] > subject to propaganda > by pamphlets or slogans
pamphleteer1901
sloganize1954
1901 R. W. Buchanan Outcast in Compl. Poet. Wks. II. ii. 195 Avers philanthropies are vile, And rests, forlornly pamphleteering, The Peter Patter of Carlyle.
1944 G. B. Shaw Everybody's Polit. 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.
1996 Observer (Nexis) 26 May (Review section) 7 He pamphleteered Thatcher? ‘At the beginning, yes, that's right. And then went to advise her.’
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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