Definitions for polemics

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polemics po·lem·ics

Spelling: [puh-lem-iks, poh-]

IPA: /pəˈlɛm ɪks, poʊ-/

Polemics is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 397 anagrams from letters in polemics (ceilmops).

Definitions for polemics

noun

1. the art or practice of disputation or controversy:
2. the branch of theology dealing with the history or conduct of ecclesiastical disputation and controversy.
3. a controversial argument, as one against some opinion, doctrine, etc.
4. a person who argues in opposition to another; controversialist.

adjective

1. Also, polemical. of or relating to a polemic; controversial.

Origin of polemics

First recorded in 1630-40; See origin at polemic, -ics

Examples for polemics

The problem is that the experience appears to have left him with an insatiable appetite for polemics.

In the great act of the Reformation their polemics were merely an after-play.

Hence the speedy oblivion which descends on polemics of all sorts.

I should not like to be misunderstood in my polemics against phylogeny.

They are concerned with chronology, history, polemics, and the history of dogma.

As the fate of the Soviet Union dramatically showed, modern superpowers cannot be sustained by polemics and police forever.

polemics would ensue; he would have to answer in the papers.

polemics are entirely absent from the poetry of his old age.

The time which he had to devote to his polemics he regards as lost. '

My hope is that Rand Paul now recognizes that even the most conservative Americans want to hear about policy, not polemics.