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polemist

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[pol-uh-mist, puh-lem-ist, poh-] / ˈpɒl ə mɪst, pəˈlɛm ɪst, poʊ- /
Also polemicist

noun

  1. a person who is engaged or versed in polemics.


Etymology

Origin of polemist

1815–25; < Greek polemistḗs warrior, equivalent to pólem ( os ) war + -istēs -ist


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The 63-year-old polemist, who is sometimes likened in France to former U.S.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 30, 2021

By his first morning in Havana, the ever combative polemist is professing his fury with Castro.

From Time Magazine Archive

Finally the Ministry of Corporations goes to scintillant polemist and war veteran Giuseppe Bottai.

From Time Magazine Archive

He was Jesuit and atheist as it suited the turn of any vituperative polemist.

From Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 10 by William Cowper Brann

He was a literary theorist, an epic poet in prose, traveller, polemist, orator.

From Initiation into Literature by Sir Home Gordon, Bart.

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