obscurantist
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]obscurantist (plural obscurantists)
- A practitioner of obscurantism; an obscurant.
- 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 180:
- The ego thinks that his local time and space is all there is to reality, and that the busy affairs of state and trade are more important than a lot of obscurantist hocus-pocus.
- 2021 February 2, Katharine Murphy, The Guardian[1]:
- Muzzling Kelly also elevates a semi-professional obscurantist to the status of free speech martyr, and that invites a cacophonous pile-on from the rightwing bobble heads who screech about the left’s obsession with identity politics while shovelling identity politics at their audiences.
Derived terms
[edit]Adjective
[edit]obscurantist (not comparable)
- Of or relating to obscurantism.
- Synonym: obscurantistic
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[edit]Romanian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from French obscurantiste.
Noun
[edit]obscurantist m (plural obscutantiști)
Declension
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indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | ||
nominative-accusative | obscurantist | obscurantistul | obscutantiști | obscutantiștii | |
genitive-dative | obscurantist | obscurantistului | obscutantiști | obscutantiștilor | |
vocative | obscurantistule | obscutantiștilor |
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