单词 | book-war |
释义 | > as lemmasbook-war book-war n. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > dissent > quarrel or quarrelling > [noun] > quarrel in printed or spoken words book-war1610 book quarrel1627 war of words1981 1610 J. Donne Pseudo-martyr Pref. sig. B2 To draw them to an aunswere, and so continue a Booke-warre. 1670 I. Walton Life of Hooker 33 Mr. Hooker became at last, but most unwillingly, to be engaged in a book-war. 1896 Public-School Jrnl. Jan. 268/1 All of the text-book publishing houses have joined in an agreement to..abandon those methods that have caused so much scandal during the late disreputable book-war. 1998 E. Christiansen in Dudo of St-Quentin Hist. Normans 198 One Catillus was named as Rollo's father... The identity of this patently fictional character was contested in a book-war of four centuries. < as lemmas |
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