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Webster 1913 Edition
Pamphleteer
Pamˊphlet-eer′
(pămˊflĕt-ēr′)
, Noun.
A writer of pamphlets; a scribbler.
Dryden. Macaulay.
Pamˊphlet-eer′
,Verb.
I.
To write or publish pamphlets.
By
pamphleteering
we shall not win. C. Kingsley.
Webster 1828 Edition
Pamphleteer
PAMPHLETEE'R
,Noun.
Definition 2024
pamphleteer
pamphleteer
English
Noun
pamphleteer (plural pamphleteers)
- a writer or publisher of pamphlets, a second-rate journalist
- 1713: Jonathan Swift, The Journal to Stella
- The Commons are very slow in bringing in their Bill to limit the press, and the pamphleteers make good use of their time; for there come out three or four every day.
- 1891: Oscar Wilde, Intentions
- but Charles Reade, an artist, a scholar, a man with a true sense of beauty, raging and roaring over the abuses of contemporary life like a common pamphleteer or a sensational journalist, is really a sight for the angels to weep over.
- 1713: Jonathan Swift, The Journal to Stella
Verb
pamphleteer (third-person singular simple present pamphleteers, present participle pamphleteering, simple past and past participle pamphleteered)
- (intransitive) To publish and distribute pamphlets as a form of propaganda.