doctrinaires

Those who were for swallowing the English system whole, were called the doctrinaires, from their faith in a theory, while the different shades of dissenting opinions were distributed among all those who looked more to facts, and less to reasoning, than their credulous coadjutors.

A Residence in France Cooper, J Fenimore 1836

For the "doctrinaires", of whom he was the head, the legitimist monarchy without liberty was an arbitrary absolutism, liberty without the legitimist monarchy, anarchy.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock 1840-1916 1913

Even though a woman founded the cult, only men become the priestly "doctrinaires,"

Boing Boing Jasmina Tešanovic 2010

"doctrinaires," have always believed that both civil and political liberty depended on the denial of popular Sovereignty and the rigid limitation of the suffrage.

The Promise of American Life Herbert David Croly 1899

It is a bitter opposition to that class of doctrinaires who are inimical to the welfare of the commonwealth; who sneer at it holiest memories, defy its laws, and assault its courts; who wave the red flag of destruction at the whole social, industrial and political organism; and who see naught that is good, save in such policies and measures as may be of disintegrative and revolutionary aspect.

The Principles of the Republican Party: A Rare Unpublished Jack London Essay 2010

It is a bitter opposition to that class of doctrinaires who are inimical to the welfare of the commonwealth; who sneer at it holiest memories, defy its laws, and assault its courts; who wave the red flag of destruction at the whole social, industrial and political organism; and who see naught that is good, save in such policies and measures as may be of disintegrative and revolutionary aspect .

The Principles of the Republican Party: A Rare Unpublished Jack London Essay 2010

A writer more interested in religion than in politics, Dostoevsky then produced a novel, "The Possessed," that is a powerful take-down of all—doctrinaires, reformers, advanced thinkers, fanatics—who make a religion of their politics.

To the Barricades! Revolutionaries in Novels Joseph Epstein 2011

Were the shock doctrinaires shocked they got away with demonizing them -- our neighbors, our family members, our spouses?

Janet Ritz: The Non-Mandated Society: Why Obama's Mortgage Programs Fail Janet Ritz 2011

Were the shock doctrinaires shocked they got away with demonizing them -- our neighbors, our family members, our spouses?

Janet Ritz: The Non-Mandated Society: Why Obama's Mortgage Programs Fail Janet Ritz 2011

Pearl Buck raised too many awkward questions, exposed too much unpalatable reality, remained essentially too skeptical to suit doctrinaires on the Left or Right.

PEARL BUCK IN CHINA Hilary Spurling 2010