logomachy

• Intricate and entangled as is the history, for instance, of the Arian controversy—that controversy which “turned on a diphthong,” as Carlyle said in his younger days—it represented far more than mere logomachy, as Carlyle saw later on. —  The Jesus of History
• Such lumbering logomachy is always injurious and oppressive to men of spirit, imagination or intellectual honour, and it has dealt very recklessly and wrongly with Bernard Shaw. —  George Bernard Shaw
• With this fresh, youthful, earnest, intellectual, and uncompromising body of young men O'Connell had to compete almost single-handed; for although he was well supported by the priests, and by the old hacks of the association, he alone could confront intellectually so gifted an array of antagonists, or maintain, with any chance of victory, his side in the logomachy which was perpetually proceeding within the circle of the Repeal Association. —  The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. From George III. to Victoria
• The question now to be considered is: Do such examples occur in Scripture, by whatever term we may choose to designate them To avoid logomachy, arising from the use of the same phrase in different senses, we prefer the expression literal and typical sense 8. —  Companion to the Bible
• It is impossible to set about disproving it, for its exponent repeatedly warns his disciple against the idleness of logomachy, and insists that the existence of the Divinity is traced upon every heart in letters that can never be effaced, if we are only content to read them with lowliness and simplicity. —  Rousseau (Volume 1 and 2)

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