polemic

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Occasion for this polemic is an outburst from Derek Hatton, deputy leader of Liverpool City Council in the 1980s while ‘a supporter of the ideas of the Militant newspapers†™, but long since transmogrified into a millionaire property developer in Cyprus.

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  1. noun A controversial argument, especially one refuting or attacking a specific opinion or doctrine.
  2. noun A person engaged in or inclined to controversy, argument, or refutation.
  3. adjective Of or relating to a controversy, argument, or refutation.

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  • But it's not a polemic, and while it will surely have special interest to theater people, director Donald Sanders is confident of its wider appeal as "a piece about passionate people seeking the truth." —  The Valley Advocate: News
  • This polemic is evidenced as being contrary to the traditional exegesis in every level. —  Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]
  • De Young and others show the inconsistency of this argument in the light of more extensive research, and that the use of arsenokoitai in 1 Cor 6: 9-10 and 1 Tim 1: 10 (to which this polemic is related), works to evidence that the Levitical injunctions were not simply targeting temple sex, but (at least male) homosex in general. —  Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]
  • Each section of the polemic is replete with quotes employed from Karl Marx supplemented by the wisdoms of RCP commander Bob Avakian. —  Kasama
  • The critical element in Badiou's philosophy beyond the ken of the writers of the polemic is that the actualization of communism is a process involving belief in the hypothesis which will be shown to have been true. —  Kasama
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Etymologies (2)

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  1. French polémique, from Greek polemikos, hostile, from polemos, war.

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  1. = French polémique = Spanish polémico = Portuguese Italian polemico, polemic (French polémiques = Spanish polémica = Portuguese Italian polemica, n., polemics), from Greek πολεμικός, warlike, from πόλεμος, war.
 

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