philodox

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  1. Properly, loving fame or glory; in the extract, loving one's own opinions; dogmatic. [Rare.] A perswasion of certaintie is a manifest testimonie of foolishness and of extreame uncertaintie. And no people are lesse Philosophers and more foolish than Platoes Phylodoxes, or lovers of their owne opinions. Florio, tr. of Montaigne's Essays, ii. 12.

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  1. Greek φιλόδοξος, from φιλεῑν, love, + δόξα, fame, opinion.
 

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