polemic
adjEtymology From French polémique, from Ancient Greek πολεμικός (polemikós, “of war”), from πόλεμος (pólemos, “war”). By surface analysis, polem- + -ic.
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Having the characteristics of a polemic.
- A fourth hindrance is by some held to be, that many of our polemic publications are too polemic. Some hold that we should urge the simple Gospel, and make no attack on Hinduism or Muhammadanism .1893, Report of the Third Decennial Missionary Conference:
- To explain some of these challenges, it is useful to take a brief and polemic look at the one area that is perhaps most fundamentally affected by the new conditions: the workplace.1995, Patrick Nicol Troy, Technological Change and the City:
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- Using a rather polemic tone, Mutua (2002) argues that interpretations of human rights are not neutral but very much embedded in cultural and political assumptions2017, Monisha Bajaj, Human Rights Education: Theory, Research, Praxis:
- Synonyms
- polemical
- Derived terms
- nonpolemic, philopolemic, polemician, polemicise, polemicism, polemicize