pamphletern.
/ˈpamflᵻtə/, U.S. /ˈpæmflədər/ rare after 17th cent.
= pamphleteer n.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > non-fiction > treatise or dissertation > [noun] > small > writing of > one who
pamphleter1583
pamphleteer1614
pamphlet-writer1735
leaflet writer1869
leafleteer1892
1583 A. Nowell et al. True Rep. Disput. E. Campion sig. E4 Here saith one of the Pamphleters, silence was the answere.
1593 G. Harvey Pierces Supererogation 181 I haue seldome..tasted a more vnsauory slaumpaump of wordes, and sentences in any sluttish Pamfletter.
1614 R. Brathwait Schollers Medley To Rdr. sig. A4 So many idle Pamphleters write to thee now a daies.
1652 R. Brome Joviall Crew ii The new Poetical Pamphletters, ambitious onely to spoile Paper, and publish their names in print.
1679 J. Smith Narr. Popish-plot 17 Calling those Pamphletters to a further Account.
1950 Jrnl. Politics 12 648 The literary or oratorical exercises of individual spokesmen and pamphleters making appeal to individuals.
1998 News & Observer (Raleigh, N. Carolina) (Nexis) 4 Jan. g5 The country's photographers, cartographers, illustrators and pamphleters are unaware of the defining impression their images create.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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