Polemical is valid Scrabble Word

Is polemical a scrabble word?
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9 letters word
15 points in Scrabble
20 points in WWF

Definitions for POLEMICAL in dictionary:

ADJECTIVE:

related to polemics, debate, also POLEMIC
of or involving strongly critical or disputatious writing or speech
Polemic; controversial; disputatious.
of or involving dispute or controversy
related to polemics, debate

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

of, relating to, or being a polemi; controversial

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How to use POLEMICAL in a sentence

His logic was studied with the sole view of learning to use polemical weapons.
Priestley the revolutionary party had an eminent man of science and a polemical writer of rare power.
Lewes was always polemical, had some theory to champion, some battle to fight.
At the same time, he was polemical and dogmatic, and more concerned to be clever than to be exact in his interpretation.
Least of all is it desirable to give character a strong set in this polemical direction in its most plastic days.
After dinner, the party adjourned, as is customary, to the bar-room, when divers political and polemical topics were canvassed with the usual national warmth.
It is not the supplement or disguise of a polemical argument.
The same regulation extends to polemical and controversial works touching on matters of doctrine in dispute between Catholics and Protestants.
It was not merely by his polemical writings during the interdict, that Sarpi won the fame of heretic in ultra-papal circles.
I need not say, that they refer only to subjects of a theological and polemical nature.

The two college friends soon fell into chat, while I sat writing at my separate table, but ready to resume my capacity of reporter, should any polemical discussion take place.
Thus even these polemical exchanges between Catholics and Protestants become blessings in disguise.
In their polemical writings the learned men of the age seem to exhaust a zoological park in their frantic search for striking epithets to hurl at their opponent.
No one can be a true theologian without being polemical on occasion.
Tertullian nowhere betrayed a similar systematic necessity, which indeed, in the case of the Gallic bishop too, only made its appearance as the result of polemical motives.
Origen recognised the problem and the problems, and elevated the pursuit of Christian theology to the rank of an independent task by freeing it from its polemical aim.
It ranges from the simplest facts to the most complicated polemical issues and is always easily in accord with its changing theme.
Scholastic learning and polemical divinity retarded the growth of all true knowledge.
He was learned, if polemical knowledge could entitle him to that praise.
He wrote them some polemical letters, in which he maintained the chief points of the Independent theology.
Gurney was an author, especially on Biblical and polemical topics.
So, without polemical discussion, or any heat of controversy, he set the example which has been so widely followed.
In spite of his own immense changes of opinion he had still to revise his conception of the polemical Chasters as an evil influence in religion.
It is upon this framework that are woven the various moral, polemical, and idyllic themes which Spenser introduces.
There may be here and there a theological student, or a contributor to the columns of a polemical magazine, who ranks Jesus Christ with Moses and with Paul.
His thought, as far as it is polemical, will probably cease to interest future readers.
Grotius had written against Socinus, and Crellius, to vindicate his master, answered Grotius with a politeness and good-breeding seldom found in a polemical divine.
Of polemical writing, as of other kinds of warfare, I think it may be said, that it is often useful, sometimes necessary, and always more or less of an evil.
Hence differences of opinion in the Buddhist Church have largely taken the shape of schools of thought rather than of separate and polemical sects.
In fact, looking at the matter from a purely polemical point of view, the advocates of the death penalty have probably the best of it.
For when they have appeared as polemical writers, it has been principally in the defence of themselves.
The literature of the time was chiefly polemical, and commentaries crowded on the book-shelves the volumes of classical and Italian writers.

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