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pamphleteer

[pam-fli-teer]
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.
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Origin of pamphleteer

First recorded in 1690–1700; pamphlet + -eer
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Examples from the Web for pamphleteer

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Historical Examples

  • A Tory pamphleteer of the time gives us the Loyalist view of the affair.

    Tea Leaves

    Various

  • The novelist is hurried on at this stage by the necessities of the pamphleteer.

  • These are some of the things complained of by my pamphleteer.

    London

    Walter Besant

  • As a controversialist and pamphleteer he had confessedly no rival.

    Ryerson Memorial Volume

    J. George Hodgins

  • Any pamphleteer can show the way to better things; but when there is no will there is no way.

    Man And Superman

    George Bernard Shaw

British Dictionary definitions for pamphleteer

pamphleteer

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
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Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Word Origin and History for pamphleteer

n.

1640s, from pamphlet + -eer. As a verb from 1690s.

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