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Logomachy

noun
1.
Argument about words or the meaning of words.





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"Logomachy" Quotes from Famous Books



... the complicated naivete of the Christian language had also foundered. The balderdash of philosophers and scholars, the logomachy of the Middle Ages, thenceforth held absolute sway. The sooty mass of chronicles and historical books and cartularies accumulated, and the stammering grace, the often exquisite awkwardness of the monks, placing the poetic remains of antiquity in a ragout, ...
— Against The Grain • Joris-Karl Huysmans
... avoid logomachy, arising from the use of the same phrase in different senses, we prefer the ...
— Companion to the Bible • E. P. Barrows


Words linked to "Logomachy" :   debate, argument, logomachist, argumentation


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