Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The principles or practices of doctrinarians or doctrinaires; mere theorizing or speculation, as opposed to practical principles; blind adhesion to one-sided theories.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The principles or practices of the Doctrinaires.
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- noun The
principles orpractices ofdoctrinaires .
Etymologies
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doctrinarian + -ism
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Examples
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If in Anatole France the savant has not lately flourished to the detriment of the fighting philosopher, why should he have spent years on the "Joan of Arc" at a period when Jaurès urgently needed intellectual aid against the doctrinarianism of the International Congress?
Books and Persons Being Comments on a Past Epoch 1908-1911 Arnold Bennett 1899
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He represents nobility, order, German doctrinarianism and pathetic and wearisome declamation. "
Komediantka. English W��adys��aw Stanis��aw Reymont 1896
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