logomachy
noun
a dispute about or concerning words.
logomachies
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pluralof logomachy.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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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 Sir Leslie Stephen
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 Sir Leslie Stephen
These theologians were, on the one hand, opposed to all unnecessary logomachies i.e., controversies involving no doctrinal differences, and, at the same time, were most careful not to fall into any extreme position themselves.
From Historical Introductions to the Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church by F. (Friedrich) Bente
Sometimes, perhaps, they will lose themselves in endless subtleties and logomachies and construct cobwebs of the brain, predestined to the rubbish-heap of extinct philosophies.
From Social Rights and Duties, Volume I (of 2) Addresses to Ethical Societies by Sir Leslie Stephen
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 Edward Clodd
