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单词 polemy
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polemyn.

Brit. /ˈpɒləmi/, U.S. /ˈpɑləmi/
Forms: 1600s polemie, 1600s– polemy, 1700s pollemy.
Origin: A borrowing from Greek, combined with an English element. Etymons: Greek πόλεμος , -y suffix3.
Etymology: < ancient Greek πόλεμος war (see polemic adj. and n.) + -y suffix3; compare ancient Greek (τὰ) πολέμια matters of war (Herodotus, Thucydides), use as noun of neuter plural of πολέμιος of or belonging to war, hostile ( < πόλεμος war + -ιος, suffix forming adjectives).
Now rare.
Controversy, opinionated argument; polemics; an instance of this, a dispute. In early use also: †warfare (obsolete).
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1642 E. Dering Coll. Speeches on Relig. xvi. 85 You will maintaine the Pen as well as the Pulpit, Polemie as well as persuasive learning.
1691 T. Brown Reasons New Convert's taking Oaths 20 I should have thought the worse of his skill in Polemies, as long as I lived.
1710 J. Clendon Tractatus Philosophico-theologicus Ep. Ded. sig. a2v Other collateral Hypotheses..have occasion'd a constant Polemy or Warfare in the Christian Religion for these 1500 Years past and more.
1752 H. Fielding Amelia IV. iv. 27 Homer..makes Hector tell his Wife, that warlike Works—What is the Greek Word—Pollemy—something—belonged to Men only.
1863 Notes & Queries 21 Feb. 152/2 Their polemy seems to have been maintained in no very Christian spirit.
1966 Asian Surv. 6 13 Mongolia suspended polemies against Communist China in line with the early attempts by the new Soviet leadership to improve relations with Peking.
1997 Independent (Nexis) 21 Oct. 10 ‘Ill-tempered political polemy’, was the verdict of Peter Hintze, general secretary of Helmut Kohl's Christian Democrats.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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