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Obscurantism   Listen
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Obscurantism  n.  The system or the principles of the obscurants.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Obscurantism" Quotes from Famous Books



... now is sunk into fatuous senility. I hardly know whether I dare trust myself to speak of Robb, for I confess that he has become to me an abstraction rather than a human being—an embodiment of all the vicious routine, the foul obscurantism, the stupid prejudice, which an enlightened Liberalism has to struggle against. There he sits, a satire on our parliamentary system. He can't put together three sentences; he never in his life ...
— Our Friend the Charlatan • George Gissing

... These essays were written at the height of the symbolism madness; in their own way, they even show some reflection of it; but taking them in their entirety, how clearly they stand above the ignorant obscurantism of the prevailing criticism of the time—how immeasurably superior they are, for example, to that favourite hymn-book of the Ibsenites, "The Ibsen Secret" by Jennette Lee! For the causes of this difference one need not seek far. They are to be found in the difference between the bombastic ...
— A Book of Prefaces • H. L. Mencken



Words linked to "Obscurantism" :   obscurantist, deception, dissimulation, policy, dissembling



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