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Engage in controversy
Answer for the clue "Engage in controversy ", 10 letters:
polemicize
Word definitions for polemicize in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1953, from polemic + -ize . Related: Polemicized ; polemicizing . Earlier was polemize (1828), from Greek polemizein "to make war, to wage war."
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
v. engage in a controversy; "The two historians polemicized for years" [syn: polemize , polemise , polemicise ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
alt. (context intransitive English) To engage in argument. vb. (context intransitive English) To engage in argument.
Usage examples of polemicize.
We can play, and spout, and polemicize, and gibber, and even make funny faces if we want to.
Where the master practitioner would present us with a seamless and harmonious verbal construction, the man from underground, who literally cannot contain himself, breaks decorum all the time, interrupts himself, comments on his own intentions, defies his readers, polemicizes with other writers.
He polemicizes with it through Stepan Verkhovensky, whose status rises toward the end of the novel.
Jovinian polemicizes against Manichaeans, not against celibates generally, is intriguing.
But her shrill, naive polemicizing caused Michaels to inwardly wince, as if at a cruel reflection of himself.