pamphleteer

American  

[pam-fli-teer] / ˌpæm flɪˈtɪər /

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.

pamphleteer British  

/ ˌpæmflɪˈtɪə /

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

Etymology

Origin of pamphleteer

First recorded in 1690–1700; pamphlet + -eer

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Example Sentences

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pamphleteer

James Otis, a lawyer, patriot, and pamphleteer whose influence was cited by both Samuel Adams and John Adams, suffered bouts of “insanity.”

From Slate ● Mar. 4, 2023

Distinguished biographer Andrew Roberts is a man on a mission: to prove that King George III of England was neither a tyrant nor the “royal brute” denounced by pamphleteer Thomas Paine during the American Revolution.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 15, 2021

The poetry of Whitman, and the leadership of King and Jackson offer insight into the distinction that the British poet and pamphleteer, Samuel Johnson, made in his essay on patriotism.

From Salon ● Mar. 6, 2021

Radical pamphleteer Thomas Paine, whose enormously popular essay Common Sense was first published in January 1776, advocated a republic: a state without a king.

From Textbooks ● Dec. 30, 2014

Did the pamphleteer himself hear and see what he recorded, or was his account at second hand?

From A History of Witchcraft in England from 1558 to 1718 by Wallace Notestein

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