pamphleteer

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He had almost ceased his activities as pamphleteer, although still editor of _The Cry_.

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  1. noun A writer of pamphlets or other short works taking a partisan stand on an issue.
  2. intransitive verb To write and publish pamphlets.

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  • Pamphlets are for the pamphleteer, but let the fact here be recorded that new ideas have always been issued at the author's expense—and also risk. —  Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Reformers, V9
  • Such was my first encounter with the twentieth century's titanic pamphleteer, an encounter which led from initial enthusiasm to wild overexcitement to monomania. —  Hooting Yard
  • At the risk of sounding like a pamphleteer in the pre-Revolutionary days in American: —  ChronWatch - Articles
  • When the hand of the pamphleteer was cut off as a penalty for his daring, Stubbs waved his hat with the hand that was left, and cried "God save Queen Elizabeth." —  History of the English People Volume 4 (of 8)
  • 'The skip-jack of all fortunes', neither side has a good word for this notorious pamphleteer, the very scum of our early journalism. —  The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume I
 

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  1. from pamphlet + -eer. Cf. French pamphlétaire, after English
  2. from pamphleteer, n.
 

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