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n. - A writer who argues in opposition to others (especially in theology).

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  • Supreme polemist perhaps, but a bit over the top sometimes.
  • John Milton, England's great 17th century religious poet and political polemist, Milton, the puritan of puritans, writing bawdy poems?
  • Another source of inspiration was the Muslim theologian and polemist Ibn Hazm, whose anti-Jewish polemic inspired Ibn Daud's Biblical exegesis.
  • He was Jesuit and atheist as it suited the turn of any vituperative polemist.
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