logomachist


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Noun 1. logomachist - someone given to disputes over words
controversialist, disputant, eristic - a person who disputes; who is good at or enjoys controversy
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729, 729 (according to LaFave, a title aimed at "these logomachists who pertinaciously anathematize polysyllabical sesquipedalianism as dysteleogical"): Wayne R.
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