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dogmatist

American  
[dawg-muh-tist, dog-] / ˈdɔg mə tɪst, ˈdɒg- /

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 British  
/ 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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Etymology

Origin of dogmatist

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

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Solskjaer is not a dogmatist, like Pep Guardiola, and he is not a tactician in the same league as Thomas Tuchel.

From New York Times Sep. 17, 2021

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

From New York Times Oct. 4, 2020

Handel doesn’t give us some Christian dogmatist, but rather a liberal-minded Roman officer who advocates tolerance, plaintively sung by Mr. Jaroussky.

From New York Times Nov. 2, 2015

Whitman was a great, .puffing manifesto writer, a dogmatist of the "I."

From Time Magazine Archive

Why not act consistently with the character of the sceptic or the dogmatist, and not put on the one or the other by turns, according to the exigencies of a system?

From A Theodicy, or, Vindication of the Divine Glory by Albert Taylor Bledsoe

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