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polemic adjective argumental, argumentative, contentious, contestable, contradictory, debatable, dialectic, dialectical, discordant, discrepant, disputatious, dissentient, dissonant, divided, eristic, factious, inharmonious, open to debate, open to dissussion, open to question, polemical, pugnacious, schismatic, subject to controversy, unreconciled See also: argument, argumentative, contention, disputable, dispute, litigious How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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In my literary survey classes, I stress the continuities between the political concerns of past authors and present-day controversies, and the way present polemicists try to "spin" history). But, like most polemicists, Davies over-eggs the pudding by excluding (for his own ideological reasons? It does not appear likely to me that the Protestant polemicists who turned it against the Society of Jesus had misquoted it, since the original would serve their purpose: "Sint ut sunt, aut non sint:" "Let them [Jesuits] be as they are, or let them cease to be |
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