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Definition of Battle of wits
1. Noun. A contest in which intelligence rather than violence is used.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Battle Of Wits
Literary usage of Battle of wits
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Winning Football by William Winston Roper (1921)
"Winning Football MODERN FOOTBALL A battle of wits THIS book and its name came
into being during the longest three seconds I ever lived. ..."
2. Ethics by John Dewey, James Hayden Tufts (1908)
"... with fists or spears or oaths or ordeals: but it is largely a battle of wits
and of technical resources between the opposite parties and their lawyers, ..."
3. Business Law for Engineersby Calvin Frank Allen by Calvin Frank Allen (1919)
"Taking Chief Engineers and Contractors as you find them, will either the Contractor
or the Contractor's lawyer stand a better chance in this battle of wits ..."
4. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1921)
"A romance in which there is a battle of wits, wi h the other woman. Radhakrishnan,
Sarvepalli The reign of religion in contemporary philosophy. 12+461 p. ..."
5. The Mythology of All Races by John Arnott MacCulloch, Louis Herbert Gray, George Foot Moore, Alice Werner (1916)
"This may be a battle of wits, as in the Coos story of the Crow whose voice was
thunder and whose eyes flashed lightning:15 a certain man-being persuaded the ..."
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