argumentums ad hominem

Definitions

Noun. [C1]

Examples

“To go at all largely into this conſideration would much exceed the limits of even one of my own⟳ notes; (oh, how my argumentums ad hominem would deal⟳ about them, were I inclined (as I am not at all) to let⟳ them looſe, gentlemen, among you!)”

“Four pages of polemic, ridicule, rhetoric, innuendo, calumny, detraction, contumely, begging of questions, a prioris, argumentums ad hominem, pathetic fallacies, ignoratio elenchis, undistributed middles… (regaining thread) Not even Kendall’s finest lyric achievement is safe from Grigsby’s flailing haymakers and knees to the groin.”

“1998: “Reina 616”, rec.arts.movies.current-films (Google group): GOOD WILL HUNTING is absolutely terrific!, the 26ᵗʰ day of August at 8 o’clock a.m. I would have⟳ no quarrel with the above. If someone DISAGREES it’s one thing. But people go further and tell⟳ me I’m WRONG, dead wrong, tasteless, lacking in judgment (we are now getting into the area of argumentums ad hominem (attacking the person instead of the argument).”

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