Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A doctrinaire; a political theorist.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A doctrinaire.
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- noun A
doctrinaire .
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Examples
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Families and decency have been torn to shreds, with the state passing off doctrinarian instead of education.
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The mistake or the misfortune of the doctrinarian party was to create aged youth.
Les Miserables 2008
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In all that is said by the doctrinarian objection above presented, there is no question of anything but effect, we seek the cause.
Les Miserables 2008
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Since the revolution, everything, including the ballet-dancers, has had its trousers; a mountebank dancer must be grave; your rigadoons are doctrinarian.
Les Miserables 2008
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"Not from a doctrinarian member of the Episcopal Church," Hood said.
Mission Of Honor Clancy, Tom 2002
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His early religious education had given Dilawur more than the average insight into the intricacies of Mahomedan doctrine, and being possessed of ready wit, and considerable ability in debate, he was ever anxious to enter into doctrinarian discussions with the _mullahs_.
The Story of the Guides G. J. Younghusband
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When the Amir Dost Mahomed Khan came to Peshawur in 1856, he was accompanied by Hafiz Ji, a leading mullah of Afghanistan and a great doctrinarian; to whom came the learned amongst the Faithful, to discuss the tenets of their religion and to listen to the wisdom of the wise.
The Story of the Guides G. J. Younghusband
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The great doctrine of the Christian era -- the brotherhood of man and the duty of the strong to the weak -- is in sharp contrast with this doctrinarian notion of equality.
Complete Essays Charles Dudley Warner 1864
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They sought a home in a fresh wilderness, where they might be undisturbed by superior human authority; they had no doctrinarian notions of equality, nor of the inequality which is the only possible condition of liberty; the idea of toleration was not born in their age; they did not project a republic; they established a theocracy, a church which assumed all the functions of a state, recognizing one Supreme
Complete Essays Charles Dudley Warner 1864
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They sought a home in a fresh wilderness, where they might be undisturbed by superior human authority; they had no doctrinarian notions of equality, nor of the inequality which is the only possible condition of liberty; the idea of toleration was not born in their age; they did not project a republic; they established a theocracy, a church which assumed all the functions of a state, recognizing one Supreme
Pilgrim and American Charles Dudley Warner 1864
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