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Definitions

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A dispute about words.
  2. n. A dispute carried on in words only; a battle of words.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. Contention in words merely, or a contention about words; a war of words.
  2. n. A game played with cards each bearing one letter, with which words are formed.

Wiktionary

  1. n. Dispute over the meaning of words
  2. n. A conflict waged only as a battle of words

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. Contention in words merely, or a contention about words; a war of words.
  2. n. A game of word making.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. argument about words or the meaning of words

Etymologies

  1. logo- + -machy (Wiktionary)
  2. Greek logomakhiā, from logomakhein, to fight about words : logo-, logo- + makhē, battle. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

Examples

  • “Jose Fierro, spelled 13 words correctly before missing "logomachy," which means a dispute over words.”

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  • “Saxon, on the contrary, delighted in the logomachy, though little enough she understood of it, following mainly by feeling, and once in a while catching a high light.”

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  • “To those that protested, and they were many, he said: This is no time for logomachy.”

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  • “Their logomachy was far more stimulating to his intellect than the reserved and quiet dogmatism of Mr. Morse.”

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  • “That is all a mere abuse of words, mere logomachy and ambiguity.”

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  • “In order to confirm and establish this union, it is accompanied by a religious ceremony, regarded by some as a sacrament, and by others as a portion of public worship; a genuine logomachy, which changes nothing in the thing.”

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  • “The Internet, whose discussion forums breed even more logomachy than they allow, can darken the vision and mood of almost anybody who spends much time on it.”

    Getting perspective on ecumenism

  • “Given as much, I agree with the late historian of doctrine Jaroslav Pelikan that there's a special place in hell reserved for people who keep such logomachy alive, and I don't want to contribute to it here.”

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  • “The Eastern Church never accepted it, and since the ninth century it has been the subject of much sterile logomachy between East and West.”

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  • whichbe A dispute over or about words; controversy marked by verbiage. May 12, 2008

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