Synonyms for obscurantist
| Grammar : Adj, noun |
| Spell : uh b-skyoo r-uh n-tiz-uh m, ob-skyoo-ran-tiz-uh m |
| Phonetic Transcription : əbˈskyʊər ənˌtɪz əm, ˌɒb skyʊˈræn tɪz əm |
Top 10 synonyms for obscurantist
Définition of obscurantist
Origin :- 1841; see obscurantism + -ist.
- As in reactionary : adj conservative
- As in mossbacked : adj reactionary
- As in reactionary : noun person who is politically conservative
- As in ultraconservative : noun reactionary
- But with Pascal we get clean away from the poison-trail of the obscurantist.
- Extract from : « Suspended Judgments » by John Cowper Powys
- This deficiency played into the hands of the reactionary and obscurantist.
- Extract from : « Reconstruction in Philosophy » by John Dewey
- He thinks that the motives of Shi Hwang-ti were obscurantist.
- Extract from : « The Outline of History: Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind » by Herbert George Wells
- You are an enemy of enlightenment, you are an obscurantist, Briquet.
- Extract from : « He Who Gets Slapped » by Leonid Nikolayevich Andreyev
- For the obscurantist, belief is made easy, and the apologies for the Faith can be comparatively straightforward.
- Extract from : « The Churches and Modern Thought » by Philip Vivian
- He was not by temperament an obscurantist, and he began by being something of a political idealist.
- Extract from : « Rome » by Mildred Anna Rosalie Tuker
- Puritanism might be narrow and bibliolatrous, but it was not obscurantist nor the enemy of science.
- Extract from : « Oxford and Her Colleges » by Goldwin Smith
- He was as intolerant as a priest, though he had no altar; as obscurantist as a magician, though he had no cave.
- Extract from : « The Outline of History: Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind » by Herbert George Wells
- Their scepticism about Universals thus overleapt itself, and fell on the other side, into obscurantist ecclesiasticism.
- Extract from : « The Outline of History: Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind » by Herbert George Wells
- Obscurantist, name given to an opponent to modern enlightenment as professed by the devotees of modern science and philosophy.
- Extract from : « The Nuttall Encyclopaedia » by Edited by Rev. James Wood
Antonyms for obscurantist
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