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Definition of Obscurantists
1. obscurantist [n] - See also: obscurantist
Lexicographical Neighbors of Obscurantists
Literary usage of Obscurantists
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Talks with Teachers by Amory Dwight Mayo (1881)
"THE NEW obscurantists. There is an evident determination in several quarters ...
We refer to the new sect of cultivated obscurantists who, for the past few ..."
2. Talks with Teachers by Amory Dwight Mayo (1881)
"THE NEW obscurantists. There is an evident determination in several quarters ...
We refer to the new sect of cultivated obscurantists who, for the past few ..."
3. Chamber's Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge (1891)
"... and lieing satisfied as to the nature and object of keeping the articles,
cause them to be destroyed. obscurantists ('lovers of darkness;' Lat. ..."
4. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"The most important document of this literary feud is the classical satire of the
Humanists, "The Letters of the obscurantists" ..."
5. The Reformation in Germany by Henry Clay Vedder (1914)
"It is customary to regard the monks of this time as mere obscurantists, men
opposed to the new learning because it was new, in their ignorance striving to ..."
6. The Reformation in Germany by Henry Clay Vedder (1914)
"It is customary to regard the monks of this tune as mere obscurantists, men
opposed to the new learning because it was new, in their ignorance striving to ..."
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