Not in OED: parapolemical; parapolemics; adjectival
Jonathan Lighter
wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM
Tue Nov 5 17:01:10 UTC 2013
Admit it. You can't communicate without these words:
2011 Kate McLoughlin _Authoring War_ (Cambridge U.P.) 3: The two
women...must perform parapolemical work in hospitals. [Note:]
...parapolemics are the spatial and temporal borders of war, its adjectival
phenomena.
JL
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