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dogmatist

[ dawg-muh-tist, dog- ]

noun

  1. a person who asserts their opinions in an unduly positive or arrogant manner; a dogmatic person.
  2. a person who lays down dogmas; one who prescribes doctrines.


dogmatist

/ ˈdɒɡmətɪst /

noun

  1. a dogmatic person
  2. a person who formulates dogmas
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of dogmatist1

First recorded in 1535–45; from Medieval Latin dogmatista, equivalent to dogmat(izāre) “to dogmatize ” + -ista -ist
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Example Sentences

But opponents criticize her as a dogmatist and a wooden public speaker, and note that she has not always been a true-blue Tory.

Bielsa’s reputation as a dogmatist has created a misleading impression of him.

Which is not to say that Davies is a free-market dogmatist.

As President Barack Obama, not known as a conservative dogmatist, put it in 2015, the “free market is the greatest producer of wealth in history — it has lifted billions of people out of poverty.”

I once asked Will Chappell, who has known the Mortons for more than a decade, whether they were actual sovereign dogmatists.

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