Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
opiniastrety .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete Obstinacy in opinions.
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- noun obsolete
obstinacy inopinions
Etymologies
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Examples
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What in them was science, is in us but opiniatrety; whilst we give up our assent only to reverend names, and do not, as they did, employ our own reason to understand those truths which gave them reputation.
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What in them was science is in us but opiniatrety.
Epistemological Problems of Testimony Adler, Jonathan 2006
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She could not be persuaded to be dressed out of the wardrobe that the king had sent to her, but would wear the clothes which she had brought, until she found that the king was displeased, and would be obeyed; whereupon she conformed, against the advice of her women, who continued their opiniatrety, without any one of them receding from their own mode, which exposed them the more to reproach. "
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She could not be persuaded to be dressed out of the wardrobe that the king had sent to her, but would wear the clothes which she had brought, until she found that the king was displeased, and would be obeyed; whereupon she conformed, against the advice of her women, who continued their opiniatrety, without any one of them receding from their own mode, which exposed them the more to reproach. "
The Memoirs of Count Grammont — Volume 03 Anthony Hamilton 1683
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She could not be persuaded to be dressed out of the wardrobe that the king had sent to her, but would wear the clothes which she had brought, until she found that the king was displeased, and would be obeyed; whereupon she conformed, against the advice of her women, who continued their opiniatrety, without any one of them receding from their own mode, which exposed them the more to reproach. "
The Memoirs of Count Grammont — Complete Anthony Hamilton 1683
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