argumentum
[ ahr-gyuh-men-tuhm ]
Origin of argumentum
1From Latin
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How to use argumentum in a sentence
It was a masterful bit of hypocritical eloquence, of argumentum ad hominem; but it was made to simple and illiterate hearers.
The Code of the Mountains | Charles Neville BuckIt was not to this, however, that he directed his objection: the argumentum ad hominem came more easily to him.
The Long Night | Stanley WeymanBut it was the argumentum ad hominem; and if my uncle Toby was not very expert at it, you may think, he might not care to use it.
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman | Laurence SterneIn a case like this the argumentum ad hominem, though a perfectly fair one, is a perfectly useless one.
It is incomprehensible; or, as St. Paul says, the argumentum non apparentium.
What is Property? | P. J. Proudhon
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