Lexicographical Neighbors of Obscurantic
Literary usage of Obscurantic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1920)
"... and the |eaders of that obscurantic and emotional reaction — the Oxford
Movement — such . as Whately, Arnold, Froude, Hurrell, Newman, ..."
2. The New Realism: Coöperative Studies in Philosophy by Edwin Bissell Holt (1912)
"(While the un- analyzed aspects of the canonic-pretentious, the idiotic-fallacious,
the obscurantic, and the conscious-deceptive are units to keep well in ..."
3. The New Realism: Coöperative Studies in Philosophy by Edwin Bissell Holt, Walter Taylor Marvin, William Pepperell Montague, Ralph Barton Perry, Walter B. Pitkin, Edward Gleason Spaulding (1912)
"(While the un- analyzed aspects of the canonic-pretentious, the idiotic-fallacious,
the obscurantic, and the conscious-deceptive are units to keep well in ..."
4. Entente Diplomacy and the World: Matrix of the History of Europe, 1909-14 by Benno Aleksandrovīch fon- Zībert, George Abel Schreiner (1921)
"Though diplomacy delights in being obscurantic, the plain fact is, that it is
nothing more than a trading in "considerations" and "compensations"—un ..."
5. The Independent Review by Edward Jenks, Charles Roden Buxton (1907)
"... the worst are due to forcing the mood, which results in an occasional artificial
sturdiness of style and a tendency to obscurantic mystification. ..."
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