po•lem•ics
Pronunciation: (pu-lem'iks, pō-), [key]
— n. (used with a sing. v.)
- the art or practice of disputation or controversy: a master of polemics.
- the branch of theology dealing with the history or conduct of ecclesiastical disputation and controversy. Cf.
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