polemic

Definitions


[pəˈlɛmɪk], (Noun)

Definitions:
- a speech or piece of writing expressing a strongly critical attack on or controversial opinion about someone or something
(e.g: his polemic against the cultural relativism of the Sixties)


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Origin:
mid 17th century: via medieval Latin from Greek polemikos, from polemos ‘war’


[pəˈlɛmɪk], (Adjective)

Definitions:
- expressing or constituting a strongly critical attack on or controversial opinion about someone or something; polemical
(e.g: unashamedly polemic writing)


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Origin:
mid 17th century: via medieval Latin from Greek polemikos, from polemos ‘war’




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