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polemist

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po·lem·ist  (p-lmst, pl-mst)
n.
Variant of polemicist.

polemicist, polemist
a skilled debater in speech or writing. — polemical, adj.
See also: Argumentation
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Noun1.polemist - a writer who argues in opposition to others (especially in theology)
author, writer - writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay)


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126 BS1429 Herbert was a member of Thomas Becket's episcopal household and an ardent polemist for him during his life and hagiographer after his murder in 1170.
Oide, a former member of the opposition Japan Socialist Party, now called the Social Democratic party, was known as a leading polemist on security and defense issues in Diet debates, particularly in the 1970s and 1980s.
While this reading successfully accounts for the defeatist stance of non-royalist poets Milton and Marvell, a larger question might still be raised as to how the vitalism of a Harvey and a Cavendish, both committed Royalists and polemists, may have served a conservative agenda which advocated a distanced yet still active central power.
 
 
 
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