pamphleteer

[pam-fli-teer]

noun

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

verb (used without object)

to write and issue pamphlets.

Origin of pamphleteer

First recorded in 1690–1700; pamphlet + -eer

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Contemporary Examples of pamphleteer

My mother was a pamphleteer by temperament, and she knew that sedition and controversy are fired by printed matter.
Only Six Books: Excerpt From Jeanette Winterson’s New Memoir
Jeanette Winterson
March 7, 2012

Historical Examples of pamphleteer

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.
Catholic World, Vol. XI, April 1870-September 1870
Various
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

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

verb

(intr) to write or issue pamphlets

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Word Origin and History for pamphleteer

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