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polemicise

polemicise is the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of polemicize.

Meaning of polemicize

Verb

polemicize (third-person singular simple present polemicizes, present participle polemicizing, simple past and past participle polemicized)

  1. (intransitive) To engage in argument.

Forms of polemicise

third-person singular presentpolemicises
present participlepolemicising
past participlepolemicised
pastpolemicised

Origin of polemicise

From polemic + -ise. By surface analysis, polem- + -ic + -ise.

Questions about polemicise

What is polemicise the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of?
Polemicise is the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of polemicize.

Words near polemicise in the dictionary

  1. polemically
  2. polemicals
  3. polemician
  4. polemicians
  5. polemicisation
  6. polemicise
  7. polemicised
  8. polemicises
  9. polemicising
  10. polemicism
  11. polemicist

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Adapted from Wiktionary: polemicise (page history and authors); polemicize (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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