logomachy

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From Latin logomachia, from Ancient Greek λογομαχία (logomakhía).

After a time this “progressive” logomachy had reached a crisis of tedium; Lord Galloway got up also and sought the drawing-room. — The innocence of Father Brown, G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
Two theologues once, as they wended their way To chapel, engaged in colloquial fray-- An earnest logomachy, bitter as gall, Concerning poor Adam and what made him fall. — The Devil's Dictionary, Ambrose Bierce
[1265] It is nothing better than an artifice, almost a logomachy, invented for the express purpose of affording some kind of justification for demanding a legal contribution by treating it as an implicit or retroactive contract. — A history of economic doctrines : $b from the time of the physiocrats to the present day, Charles Gide

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