pamphlet

  • 11Pamphlet — (Wort unbekannten Ursprungs), kleine, eine Tagesangelegenheit behandelnde Schrift, Flugschrift …

    Herders Conversations-Lexikon

  • 12pamphlet — (n.) small, unbound treatise, late 14c., from Anglo Latin panfletus, popular short form of Pamphilus, seu de Amore ( Pamphilus, or about Love ), a short 12c. Latin love poem popular and widely copied in Middle Ages; the name from Gk. pamphilos… …

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  • 13pamphlet — [n] booklet announcement, broadside, brochure, bulletin, circular, compilation, flyer*, folder, handout, leaflet, throwaway*, tract, tractate; concepts 271,280 …

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  • 14pamphlet — ► NOUN ▪ a small booklet or leaflet containing information or arguments about a single subject. ► VERB (pamphleted, pamphleting) ▪ distribute pamphlets to. ORIGIN from Pamphilet, the familiar name of the 12th century Latin love poem Pamphilus,… …

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  • 15pamphlet — [pam′flit] n. [ME pamfilet < OFr Pamphilet, dim. of ML Pamphilus, short for Pamphilus, seu de Amore, Pamphilus, or on Love, title of 12th c. ML amatory poem] 1. a small, thin, unbound book made up of sheets of paper stapled or stitched… …

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  • 16Pamphlet — Pour les articles homonymes, voir Pamphlet (homonymie). Le pamphlet est un genre littéraire (et genre journalistique) qui appartient à la littérature de combat. Au Canada français, le terme pamphlet est utilisé presque uniquement dans le sens, où …

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  • 17Pamphlet — Ein Pamphlet oder Schmähschrift ist eine Schrift, in der sich jemand engagiert, überspitzt und polemisch zu einem wissenschaftlichen, religiösen oder politischen Thema äußert. Die sachliche Argumentation tritt dabei in den Hintergrund; die… …

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  • 18Pamphlet — A pamphlet is an unbound booklet (that is, without a hard cover or binding). It may consist of a single sheet of paper that is printed on both sides and folded in half, in thirds, or in fourths (called a leaflet), or it may consist of a few pages …

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  • 19pamphlet — pamphletary, adj. /pam flit/, n. 1. a complete publication of generally less than 80 pages stitched or stapled together and usually having a paper cover. 2. a short treatise or essay, generally a controversial tract, on some subject of… …

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  • 20pamphlet — (pan flè ; le t ne se prononce pas et ne se lie pas ; au pluriel, l s se lie : des pan flè z odieux) s. m. 1°   Petit livre de peu de pages. •   Je lui ai écrit pour le prier de m envoyer par la première commodité un pamphlet qui a pour titre… …

    Dictionnaire de la Langue Française d'Émile Littré