单词 | controversialism |
释义 | controversialismn. A controversial attitude or statement; deliberate provocation of controversy; tendency to engage in or provoke controversy. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > testing > debate, disputation, argument > controversy, dispute, argument > [noun] > quality of disputacity1660 disputatiousness1681 argumentativeness1731 controversialism1822 disputativeness1836 controversionalism1858 1822 Palæoromaica iii. 130 The book..contains many controversialisms (if I may so term them). 1859 Lit. Churchman 5 459 It shews a tendency to controversialism. 1884 Homiletic Monthly Mar. 386 There are temptations on the part of many to controversialism. 1921 Auburn Seminary Rec. 10 Sept. 204 It is a great advantage to a student that when he graduates from Auburn he goes out free from controversialism. 2014 Sunday Times (Nexis) 27 Apr. (Style setion) 29 It makes the rest of her art look like banal controversialism. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1822 |
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