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Definition of Obscurantist
1. Noun. A person who is deliberately vague.
Derivative terms: Obscurantism
Definition of Obscurantist
1. n. Same as Obscurant.
Definition of Obscurantist
1. Noun. A practitioner of obscurantism; an obscurant ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Obscurantist
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Obscurantist
Literary usage of Obscurantist
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Rousseau by John Morley (1900)
"... they will only suffer misfortunes still more cruel in consequence.1 After a
series of oriental and obscurantist propositions of this kind, ..."
2. The Literature of the French Renaissance by Arthur Augustus Tilley (1904)
"The foundation of the professorships had from the first been hotly opposed by
the obscurantist party of the University, under the leadership of Noel Beda, ..."
3. Mysteria: History of the Secret Doctrines and Mystic Rites of Ancient by Otto Henne am Rhyn (1895)
"obscurantist INFLUENCES. The daybreak of illuminism in the 18th century gave to
the partisans of the ancient despotism of creed and privilege matter of most ..."
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