Meanings of polemical discussion in English

A romance is no place for polemical discussion, and we will therefore leave those painful arguments unrecorded.

So, without polemical discussion, or any heat of controversy, he set the example which has been so widely followed.

But their decision was formed from an entirely partial standpoint, which they had taken up in the exigency of polemical discussion.

He occasionally spent an evening at our house, passing it in polemical discussion, revising the prayers and exhortations which he made at conference meetings.

All the settlers were, however, so busy in erecting dwellings, and cultivating the ground, that no one had time for polemical discussions.

"For Heaven's sake," I said, "no polemical discussions!