polemise

Updated: June 4, 2025

It is done sometimes, even in our own day, by religious folk who polemise in politics. "Cards they played on the Sabbath. Plays they rehearsed too, by Shakespeare, Dryden, Congreve and others, whose names may guarantee their lewdness. . . . The woman, I have said, was fair; but of that sort their feet go down ever to Hell. . . ."

Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch - Lady Good-for-Nothing : A Man's Portrait of a Woman