Philopolemic

//ˌfɪləʊpəˈlɛmɪk//

Synonyms for "philopolemic" (15 found)

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9 translations across 4 languages.

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French

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  • philopolémique adj (exalting or supporting conflict or war)

German

3 entries
  • kriegliebend adj (exalting or supporting conflict or war)
  • philopolemisch adj (exalting or supporting conflict or war)
  • streitliebend adj (exalting or supporting conflict or war)

Serbo-Croatian

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  • ratnohuškački adj (exalting or supporting conflict or war)

Spanish

4 entries
  • belicoso adj (exalting or supporting conflict or war)
  • beligerante adj (exalting or supporting conflict or war)
  • filopolémico adj (exalting or supporting conflict or war)
  • filopolémico adj (fond of polemics or controversy)

Sample sentences

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[L]et us direct our attention to what Plato and his best interpreter Proclus have transmitted to us concerning Minerva, who as a mundane deity is connected with ether, and has also an allotment in the celestial regions. Plato then in the Timæus describes this Goddess as both a lover of war, and a lover of wisdom; for he says that she is philopolemic and philosophic.

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[H]e dropped his title, which has since remained in abeyance; all of which was done with such secrecy as would have been successful had he been fighting a less diabolical and philopolemic enemy than the descendants of the deeply-wronged and unforgiving Evangeline.

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Strange! as her thoughts hovered about this, his greeting, with the subtle feeling of elation, which ran with direct and certain evidence of philopolemic strength and ability to twine the threads of destiny straight from the loom of the master-spinner, her mind reverted unconsciously and without impetus on her part, to those words in the last letter of de Monasterys— […]

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And what after all was this philopolemic building but a mausoleum in need of a body? His conscience thus quietened, Pascoe unscrewed the top of the urn, took out a handful of dust, examined it for fear, found it, […]

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