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pam·phlet·eer

(păm′flĭ-tîr′)

A writer of pamphlets or other short works taking a partisan stand on an issue.

intr.v. pam·phlet·eered, pam·phlet·eer·ing, pam·phlet·eers

To write and publish pamphlets.

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pamphleteer

(ˌpæmflɪˈtɪə)

(Journalism & Publishing) a person who writes or issues pamphlets, esp of a controversial nature

(Journalism & Publishing) (intr) to write or issue pamphlets

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pam•phlet•eer

(ˌpæm flɪˈtɪər)

n.

1. a person who writes or publishes pamphlets.

v.i.

2. to write or publish pamphlets.

[1690–1700]

pamphleteer

Past participle: pamphleteered
Gerund: pamphleteering

Imperative
pamphleteer
pamphleteer

Present
I pamphleteer
you pamphleteer
he/she/it pamphleteers
we pamphleteer
you pamphleteer
they pamphleteer

Preterite
I pamphleteered
you pamphleteered
he/she/it pamphleteered
we pamphleteered
you pamphleteered
they pamphleteered

Present Continuous
I am pamphleteering
you are pamphleteering
he/she/it is pamphleteering
we are pamphleteering
you are pamphleteering
they are pamphleteering

Present Perfect
I have pamphleteered
you have pamphleteered
he/she/it has pamphleteered
we have pamphleteered
you have pamphleteered
they have pamphleteered

Past Continuous
I was pamphleteering
you were pamphleteering
he/she/it was pamphleteering
we were pamphleteering
you were pamphleteering
they were pamphleteering

Past Perfect
I had pamphleteered
you had pamphleteered
he/she/it had pamphleteered
we had pamphleteered
you had pamphleteered
they had pamphleteered

Future
I will pamphleteer
you will pamphleteer
he/she/it will pamphleteer
we will pamphleteer
you will pamphleteer
they will pamphleteer

Future Perfect
I will have pamphleteered
you will have pamphleteered
he/she/it will have pamphleteered
we will have pamphleteered
you will have pamphleteered
they will have pamphleteered

Future Continuous
I will be pamphleteering
you will be pamphleteering
he/she/it will be pamphleteering
we will be pamphleteering
you will be pamphleteering
they will be pamphleteering

Present Perfect Continuous
I have been pamphleteering
you have been pamphleteering
he/she/it has been pamphleteering
we have been pamphleteering
you have been pamphleteering
they have been pamphleteering

Future Perfect Continuous
I will have been pamphleteering
you will have been pamphleteering
he/she/it will have been pamphleteering
we will have been pamphleteering
you will have been pamphleteering
they will have been pamphleteering

Past Perfect Continuous
I had been pamphleteering
you had been pamphleteering
he/she/it had been pamphleteering
we had been pamphleteering
you had been pamphleteering
they had been pamphleteering

Conditional
I would pamphleteer
you would pamphleteer
he/she/it would pamphleteer
we would pamphleteer
you would pamphleteer
they would pamphleteer

Past Conditional
I would have pamphleteered
you would have pamphleteered
he/she/it would have pamphleteered
we would have pamphleteered
you would have pamphleteered
they would have pamphleteered

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Noun

pamphleteer - a writer of pamphlets (usually taking a partisan stand on public issues)

author, writer - writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay)

Translations

pamphleteer

[ˌpæmflɪˈtɪəʳ] N → folletista mf, panfletista mf

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

pamphleteer

n → Verfasser(in) m(f) → von Druckschriften/Flugblättern

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References in classic literature ?

"You have, perhaps, yourself written pamphlets without severely persecuting pamphleteers."

View in context

He now became a pamphleteer in support of King William and the Whigs.

View in context

Polyglot, of unknown parentage, of indefinite nationality, anarchist, with a pedantic and ferocious temperament, and an amazingly inflammatory capacity for invective, he was a power in the background, this violent pamphleteer clamouring for revolutionary justice, this Julius Laspara, editor of the Living Word , confidant of conspirators, inditer of sanguinary menaces and manifestos, suspected of being in the secret of every plot.

View in context

As a rule, policymakers ought to be also pamphleteers. They should immerse in the marketplace of ideas and argue strongly for the policies they represent.

The more the merrier

But just as courageous pamphleteers stoked the fires of the American Revolution, tyrants and kleptocrats should rightly tremble at the thought of their secrets being passed around in any format.

Democracy shines a light on the dark arts of finance

Cartoonists and pamphleteers who supported Lincoln were apt to play up his rangy build and folksy, forthright attitude.

The National Joker; Abraham Lincoln and the Politics of Satire

Cullen argued that pamphleteers, often politically motivated and with no first hand evidence of the events they discussed, presented whichever arguments suited their purposes and ignored economic realities.

Pamphlets, legislators and the Irish economy: 1727-49: a reconsideration

Renaissance learning jostled with scientific perspectives, commercial acumen, and numerous religious devotions, as well as the rough-and-tumble world of pamphleteers, coffeehouse denizens, and the street.

Dutch Culture in the Golden Age

And back they came to Birmingham last Friday to mark the 40th anniversary, a motley crew of union activists, Socialist Worker agitprop types, banner-waving campaigners, pamphleteers, a few musicians and the media.

A trip down memory lane with a union behemoth

L'Estrange was surely one of the most assured and tenacious of Restoration pamphleteers, so it is surprising to see him fail to convince his audience that Godfrey was not in fact murdered by Catholics.

Peter Hinds. 'The Horrid Popish Plot': Roger L'Estrange and the Circulation of Political Discourse in Late Seventeenth-Century London

More Americans are interested in politics than ever, but an office that had specialized in communicating the president's daily message to major newspapers, magazines, and television networks must now deal with cable, websites, YouTube, comedy shows, and those 21st-century pamphleteers, the bloggers.

Pressroom of Babel

historians have merely read the court records in the way that accusers, judges, theologians and pamphleteers wanted them to be read.