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Definition of Polemical

Polemical
Polemical Po*lem"ic*al, a. Polemic; controversial; disputatious. -- Po*lem"ic*al*ly, adv. Polemical and impertinent disputations. --Jer. Taylor.

Meaning of Polemical from wikipedia

- arguments on controversial topics. A person who writes polemics, or speaks polemically, is called a polemicist. The word derives from Ancient Gr**** πολεμικός...
- defines parody as "any cultural practice which provides a relatively polemical allusive imitation of another cultural production or practice". The literary...
- The historical Vedic religion, also called Vedicism or Vedism, and sometimes ancient Hinduism or Vedic Hinduism, constituted the religious ideas and practices...
- proposition. Straw man arguments have been used throughout history in polemical debate, particularly regarding highly charged emotional subjects. Straw...
- Mark of Ephesus (Gr****: Μάρκος ὁ Ἐφέσιος, born Manuel Eugenikos) was a hesychast theologian of the late Palaiologan period of the Byzantine Empire who...
- orientation – were influential in the identification of postmodernism as a polemical position opposed to the rationalist values championed by the Enlightenment...
- throughout the work. The Jesuits were offended, and Gr****i soon replied with a polemical tract of his own, The Astronomical and Philosophical Balance, under the...
- the quality and irony of its prose, its use of primary sources, and its polemical criticism of organized religion. Edward Gibbon was born in 1737, the son...
- Johann Nikolaus Weislinger (1691 – 29 August 1755) was a Catholic polemical writer. Weislinger was born at Püttlingen in German Lorraine. After attending...
- imprint. In November 1937, Penguin inaugurated a new series of short, polemical books under the rubric of Penguin Specials with the publication of Edgar...