pamphleteer

American  

[pam-fli-teer] / ˌpæm flɪˈtɪər /

noun

1. a writer or publisher of pamphlets, especially on controversial issues.

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verb (used without object)

1. to write and issue pamphlets.

pamphleteer British  

/ ˌpæmflɪˈtɪə /

noun

1. a person who writes or issues pamphlets, esp of a controversial nature

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verb

1. (intr) to write or issue pamphlets

Etymology

Origin of pamphleteer

First recorded in 1690–1700; pamphlet + -eer

Example Sentences

Some critics, he thinks, miss their target as badly as Pamphleteer Livesey.

From Time Magazine Archive

Also, as we said, the Pamphleteer draws pen, on this side and that: zealous fists beat the Pulpit-drum.

From The French Revolution by Carlyle, Thomas

Soc. of Java, 1815, pub. in Valpy's Pamphleteer, No. 15.

From The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life by Alger, William Rounseville

They have also been printed by Hearne at the end of his edition of Robert of Avesbury, in the Pamphleteer, vol. xxi., and in the Harleian Miscellany, vol. iii.

From Henry VIII. by Pollard, A. F. (Albert Frederick)

But what man that believed in such a Universe as that of this Dead-Sea Pamphleteer could consent to live in it at all?

From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 03 by Carlyle, Thomas