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logomach

NOUN
  1. someone given to disputes over words

How To Use logomach In A Sentence

  • A few distinctions might be helping, to avoid "logomachy" (thanks for that) and just simply talking past each other. Undefined
  • The Internet, whose discussion forums breed even more logomachy than they allow, can darken the vision and mood of almost anybody who spends much time on it. Getting perspective on ecumenism
  • That is all a mere abuse of words, mere logomachy and ambiguity. A Philosophical Dictionary
  • After triumphing for a season, it has been of late years often treated with contempt, and sometimes banished to the limbo of extinct logomachies. The English Utilitarians, Volume II (of 3) James Mill
  • He had exploded the scholastic system, which had become a mere mass of logomachies and an incubus upon scientific progress. The English Utilitarians, Volume I.
  • In order to confirm and establish this union, it is accompanied by a religious ceremony, regarded by some as a sacrament, and by others as a portion of public worship; a genuine logomachy, which changes nothing in the thing. A Philosophical Dictionary
  • Jose Fierro, spelled 13 words correctly before missing "logomachy," which means a dispute over words. Azcentral.com | news
  • Their logomachy was far more stimulating to his intellect than the reserved and quiet dogmatism of Mr. Morse. Chapter 13
  • eristic" -- into an argument for its own sake; or sinks into logomachy, Plato and Platonism
  • They wander wearily through the mazes of psychological detail or wage almost childish logomachies over the interpretation of each other's essays. Essays Towards a Theory of Knowledge
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