Definition of pamphleteer
: a writer of pamphlets attacking something or urging a cause
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The dissent hinges on a case from the 1990s called Turner Broadcasting v. FCC, which established that cable companies were protected by the First Amendment, just as newspaper publishers and pamphleteers were.
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And if the internet imploded entirely, and the major newspapers folded and local news outlets disappeared (ugh...) too, the partisan pamphleteers would rise again in their wake.
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Congress wanted to protect the penny press and pamphleteers.
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Frum has the pamphleteer’s flair for the scathing epithet, which can be energizing or enervating, depending on your tolerance for hyperbole.
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Rhetorically, Trump’s Youngstown speech recalls the openly racist language found in the early 20th century among white reporters, pamphleteers, and politicians who expressed the prejudices of the era.
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By then, pamphleteers needed an exceptionally strong voice to be heard above the din—something even harder to achieve once newspapers and periodicals joined the battle for readers as the century matured.
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Born in on Aug. 25, 1796, Lick was the son of a demanding carpenter and the grandson of a Revolutionary War veteran, William Lük (the family spelling then), who survived Valley Forge and imbued young Lick with a love of the pamphleteer Thomas Paine.
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First Known Use of pamphleteer
1614
Definition of pamphleteer
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: to write and publish pamphlets
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: to engage in partisan arguments indirectly in writings
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Bernard Bailyn, the great historian of the pre-revolution politics of the U.S. colonies, showed through a deep reading of colonial pamphleteering that the early Americans were ardently resentful of distant, central authority.
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Did You Know?
Pamphlets, unbound printed publications with no covers or with paper covers, are published about all kinds of subjects, but our word pamphlet traces back to one particular document. It derives from the title of a short Latin love poem of the 12th century: Pamphilus, seu De Amore, which can be translated as "Pamphilus, or On Love." The name Pamphilus referred to a Greek god whose name means "loved by all." Following from this, the original pamphlets were short handwritten poems, tracts, or treatises, often consisting of several pages bound together. "Pamphleteer," which can be both a noun and a verb, combines "pamphlet" with the "-eer" suffix found in such words as "engineer" and "puppeteer."
First Known Use of pamphleteer
1698
PAMPHLETEER Defined for English Language Learners
Definition of pamphleteer for English Language Learners
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: a person who writes pamphlets usually to support a cause or to criticize someone or something
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