Jose Fierro, spelled 13 words correctly before missing "logomachy," which means a dispute over words. From Wordnik.com. [azcentral.com | news] Reference
A few distinctions might be helping, to avoid "logomachy" (thanks for that) and just simply talking past each other. From Wordnik.com. Reference
To those that protested, and they were many, he said: This is no time for logomachy. From Wordnik.com. [Goliah] Reference
While perfectly willing to watch the logomachy when it should arrive, I had no wish to take part. From Wordnik.com. [A Woman Tenderfoot] Reference
If more people would appreciate that, there would be far less misunderstanding and logomachy than we usually see. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-11-01] Reference
After a time this “progressive” logomachy had reached a crisis of tedium; Lord Galloway got up also and sought the drawing-room. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Father Brown] Reference
A similar logomachy has marked the course of Milton's champions; words like sharp swords have been wielded by ignorance, and have injured the poet's true fame. From Wordnik.com. [English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction] Reference
It matters not what that triadology actually is; indeed, the interpretation of the De Trinitate has itself been one of the standard topics of the sterile logomachy. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-11-01] Reference
Back of what might seem a mere logomachy there is really, in. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize] Reference
We are not agitating an idle logomachy concerning the term reward. From Wordnik.com. [Apology of the Augsburg Confession] Reference
Thomists as mere reductions of barren logomachy to the flatly absurd. From Wordnik.com. [The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II)] Reference
This is the question, and let it not be lost sight of in a cloud of logomachy. From Wordnik.com. [A Theodicy, or, Vindication of the Divine Glory] Reference
On pragmatist principles therefore, a dispute over self - transcendency is a pure logomachy. From Wordnik.com. [Meaning of Truth] Reference
The Paduan school of scepticism, the logomachy in vogue there, unsettled his religious opinions. From Wordnik.com. [Renaissance in Italy, Volumes 1 and 2 The Catholic Reaction] Reference
Sophistry, logomachy, eristic: we may learn what these are, sometimes, from Plato's own practice. From Wordnik.com. [Plato and Platonism] Reference
The argument is a mere logomachy, the trick of taking a vague word and then asking if it applies precisely. From Wordnik.com. [Criticisms and Interpretations. VII. By Gilbert K. Chesterton] Reference
And suppose he tackled me again with this logomachy, which might vainly have been set before ancient Oedipus. From Wordnik.com. [A Journey to the Interior of the Earth] Reference
Their logomachy was far more stimulating to his intellect than the reserved and quiet dogmatism of Mr. Morse. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 13] Reference
Sophocles '' King Oedipus 'and endless logomachy about free-will and predestination in their relation to guilt. From Wordnik.com. [The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller] Reference
Those who accuse Scholasticism of being a mere logomachy can find arguments in the writings of Peter of Poitiers. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip] Reference
Reid and his successors were quite as much alive as Locke to the danger of falling into mere scholastic logomachy. From Wordnik.com. [The English Utilitarians, Volume I.] Reference
After a time this "progressive" logomachy had reached a crisis of tedium; Lord Galloway got up also and sought the drawing-room. From Wordnik.com. [The Innocence of Father Brown] Reference
Albert, who showed a skill in logomachy that marked him out as a future labour member, was consoling herself with meat sandwiches. From Wordnik.com. [Love Among the Chickens] Reference
This type of logomachy as a literary genre had been already suggested, in more or less formal style, in writings previous to Huan K'uan. From Wordnik.com. [Discourses On Salt and Iron] Reference
Now the decks are cleaned for action, and all is ready for the forensic logomachy as soon as it may please Providence and some associate in the. From Wordnik.com. [Baboo Jabberjee, B.A.] Reference
This rare old lady wrote lively, interesting letters on all current topics, and was as eager to win at whist, backgammon, or logomachy as a child. From Wordnik.com. [Memories and Anecdotes] Reference
Heaven forbid that I should once more wade in those swamps of logomachy and tautology in which the old guard of the Determinists still seem to be floundering. From Wordnik.com. [Utopia of Usurers and Other Essays] Reference
Such lumbering logomachy is always injurious and oppressive to men of spirit, imagination or intellectual honour, and it has dealt very recklessly and wrongly with Bernard Shaw. From Wordnik.com. [George Bernard Shaw] Reference
'progressive' logomachy had reached a crisis of tedium; Lord. From Wordnik.com. [The Innocence of Father Brown: The Secret Garden] Reference
To those that protested, and they were many, he said: "This is no time for logomachy. From Wordnik.com. [Revolution, and Other Essays] Reference
"Our difference as to 'pity,' I suspect, was a logomachy of my making. From Wordnik.com. [Robert Louis Stevenson: a record, an estimate, and a memorial] Reference
Betwixt us two no more logomachy. From Wordnik.com. [The Hesperides & Noble Numbers: Vol. 1 and 2] Reference
There was "no want of disputation and logomachy.". From Wordnik.com. [De la philosophie de la nature] Reference
A priggishness, a pretentious logomachy. From Wordnik.com. [The Research Magnificent] Reference
A logomachy. From Wordnik.com. [A Pluralistic Universe Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the Present Situation in Philosophy] Reference
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