logomachies
- plural of logomachy.
Example Sentences
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Wit is not thy strong point, friend Arnelm; and yet it is strange that in the sharp encounter of ready tongues and idle logomachies thou hast sometimes the advantage.
From Vivian Grey by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield
Sweeping the subject-matter clear of all logomachies, he lets the light of common day fall upon it.
From Pioneers of Evolution from Thales to Huxley With an Intermediate Chapter on the Causes of Arrest of the Movement by Clodd, Edward
After triumphing for a season, it has been of late years often treated with contempt, and sometimes banished to the limbo of extinct logomachies.
From The English Utilitarians, Volume II (of 3) James Mill by Stephen, Leslie, Sir
They wander wearily through the mazes of psychological detail or wage almost childish logomachies over the interpretation of each other's essays.
From Essays Towards a Theory of Knowledge by Philip, Alexander
First of all, I conceive that, as I have indicated, a really scientific habit of thought would dispel many hopeless logomachies.
From Social Rights and Duties, Volume I (of 2) Addresses to Ethical Societies by Stephen, Leslie, Sir
