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obscurantist, n. and a.|ɒbˈskjʊərəntɪst, ˌɒbskjʊəˈrænt-|
[f. as prec. + -ist.]
A. n. One who opposes the progress of intellectual enlightenment.
1838–48Hare Guesses (1874) 501 People have been sounding the alarm for many years past all over Europe against what they call obscurantism and obscurantists. Ibid., The true obscurantists are the passions, the prejudices, the blinding delusions of our nature, warpt by evil habits and self-indulgence; the real obscurantism is bigotry, in all its forms, which are many, and even opposite. 1858Gen. P. Thompson Audi Alt. II. lxvii. 5 The obstacles thrown in the way of Education by the English Obscurantists.
B. adj. Of, pertaining to, or of the nature of an obscurantist; opposed to enlightenment.
1850Kingsley Alt. Locke xvii, You working men complain of the clergy for being bigoted and obscurantist, and hating the cause of the people. 1882Goldw. Smith in 19th Cent. July 6 A priesthood as absolute and as obscurantist as the Druids. |