Hypertext Webster Gateway: "polemics"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Polemics \Po*lem"ics\, n. [Cf. F. pol['e]mique.]
The art or practice of disputation or controversy, especially
on religious subjects; that branch of theological science
which pertains to the history or conduct of ecclesiastical
controversy.
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