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LOGOMACHY Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster
1. a dispute over or about words 2. a controversy marked by verbiage Did you know? It doesn't take much to start people arguing about words.
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logomachy - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
Noun · Dispute over the meaning of words · A conflict waged only as a battle of words · 1911, G. K. Chesterton, “The Secret Garden”, in The Innocence of Father ...
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LOGOMACHY Definition & Meaning - Dictionary.com
a dispute about or concerning words. an argument or debate marked by the reckless or incorrect use of words; meaningless battle of words.
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logomachy
logomachy (ləˈgɒməkɪ) Forms: 6–7 logomachie, 7– logomachy; also 7–8 in Latin form logomachia. pl. -ies; also 8 -ys. [ad. Gr. λογοµαχία, f. λόγο-ς word + -µαχία fighting.] 1. Contention about words; an instance of this.1569 J. Sandford tr. Agrippa's Van. Artes 169 Of so high a science they have made ...
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Logomachy - Definition, Meaning & Synonyms - Vocabulary.com
A fight about words is called logomachy. You don't have to be an etymologist to find yourself caught up in logomachy, but you have to care about words and ...
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Logomachy: A Look at a Nineteenth-Century Card Game
I found an instruction manual for an 1874 children's card game called Logomachy, or War of Words, designed by FA Wright, a games maker from Cincinnati.
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Logodaedaly
Samuel Bailey used the term with greater precision, distinguishing between logodaedaly and logomachy:
In questions of philosophy or divinity, that have occupied the learned, and been the subjects of many successive controversies, for one instance of mere logomachy, I could bring ten instances of logodaedaly
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logomachy - VDict
Word: Logomachy. Part of Speech: Noun. Definition: A logomachy is an argument or dispute about words or the meanings of words. It often involves lengthy ...
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Logomachy - Etymology, Origin & Meaning
Logomachy, from 1560s Latinized Greek origin, means contention or war about words, combining "logo-" (word) and "-machy" (battle).
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Logomachy - WORDS IN A SENTENCE
Examples of Logomachy in a sentence. 1. Not being able to decide on the correct definition for the word 'inevitable', the two engaged in a classic logomachy ...
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What is logomachy? What are the origins of the word? - Quora
It means “an argument about words” and is made up (in both senses of that verb) from two Greek words - “logos” (a word) and “makhia” (a fight).
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Logomachy - The Oikofuge
Logomachy comes from two Greek words. The first is logos, which had a primary meaning of “word” or “speech”, but was also used to signify “proportion”, “value” ...
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logomachize
logomachize, v. (ləˈgɒməkaɪz) [f. as prec. + -ize.] intr. To indulge in logomachy. Hence loˈgomachizing ppl. a.1830 Fraser's Mag. I. 592 The..incomprehensible cackle of logomachising ganders.
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logomacice
† logomacice Obs. rare—1. [as if ad. Gr. *λογοµαχική (sc. τέχνη), fem. of *λογοµαχικός of or pertaining to logomachy, f. λογοµάχος logomach.] (See quot.)1646 J. Saltmarsh Some Drops iii. Smoke in Temple 56 You criticise on words;..I wonder you..have leisure for that, this is logomacice, or word-figh...
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Samuel Werenfels
Werenfels went further, regarding "logomachy" as a malaise of the Republic of Letters. The underlying causes of logomachy were taken by Werenfels to be prejudice and other failings of the disputants, and ambiguity in language.
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