1698 E. Ward Trip to Jamaica 3 The condition of an author is much like that of a strumpet... If the reason be requir'd Why we betake our selves to so scandalous a profession as whoring or pamphleteering, the same excusive answer will serve us both.

1715 M. Davies Εἰκων Μικρο-βιβλικὴ Pref. 2 The Jesuitical Subornation of a Foot-Soldier's Pamphleteering against a Protestant Vicar.

a1739 S. Wesley Poems Several Occasions (1862) xix. 633 Since, gall'd by Harry, Bob the Great Has stoop'd to pamphleteering.

a1802 T. Dermody Harp of Erin (1807) II. 224 Keen as a cat, I pored a-pamphleteering, And spied such heaps.

1862 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia III. xiii. i. 406 Oh the pamphleteerings, the denouncings, the complainings.

1897 Granta 24 Apr. 264/2 The impatient folly of those who try to do a century's work in a week of garrulity and pamphleteering.

1926 Econ. Jrnl. 36 434 Mr. Keynes is a master in the technique of pamphleteering.

1992 Time 16 Mar. 49/2 A 50-member student group called Concerned Christians at Harvard..launched a campaign of prayer vigils, publicity and pamphleteering.

a1763 J. Byrom Misc. Poems (1773) II. 326 To preach a poor Debate, That could but shine at pamphleteering Rate.

1788 L. MacNally Critic upon Critic (ed. 2) iii. i. 47 The other pamphleteering authors, who wear decent cloaths, have secured possession of the boxes, where they form a band of gentlemen pensioners.

1815 Edinb. Rev. 25 188 Vulgar slander..eked out by pamphleteering declamation.

1883 G. Brodrick in 19th Cent. 920 The coarse pamphleteering literature of which Swift and Junius produced the choicest specimens.

1930 T. S. Eliot tr. ‘St.-J. Perse’ Anabasis 39 Let me go alone with the airs of the night, among the pamphleteering Princes.

1993 M. Kennedy Britten (rev. ed.) xviii. 131 Auden and Britten had brought a pamphleteering class-consciousness into the concert-hall.