Definition of "polemist" []

• Variant of polemicist. (noun)

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• "John Milton, England's great 17th century religious poet and political polemist, Milton, the puritan of puritans, writing bawdy poems?"
• "Supreme polemist perhaps, but a bit over the top sometimes."
• "Another source of inspiration was the Muslim theologian and polemist Ibn Hazm, whose anti-Jewish polemic inspired Ibn Daud's Biblical exegesis."