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eristic

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7 lettersPart of speech adjective, nounSorted ceiirstStarts with EEnds with C0 clues
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Definitions

  1. given to disputation for its own sake and often employing specious arguments

Word origin

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἐριστικός (eristikós, “eager for strife”). See also Eris.

Used in a sentence

  • c. 1810-1834? Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Notes on Waterland a specimen of admirable special pleading in the court of eristic logic
  • Poets may be incurious of the subtleties of philological eristic, but they are wont to see into the heart of things.

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