单词 | polemy |
释义 | polemyn. Now rare. Controversy, opinionated argument; polemics; an instance of this, a dispute. In early use also: †warfare (obsolete). ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > testing > debate, disputation, argument > controversy, dispute, argument > [noun] > instance of flitec1000 plead1379 traverse1415 controversyc1430 disputation1557 tilt1567 wrangle1579 controverse1596 velitation1607 dispute1611 rixation1623 polemic1626 fireball1638 polemy1642 risse1684 polemical1808 spar1836 row1879 set-to1898 cag1916 barge1934 yike1976 stand-up2005 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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