dogmatist
a person who asserts their opinions in an unduly positive or arrogant manner; a dogmatic person.
a person who lays down dogmas; one who prescribes doctrines.
Origin of dogmatist
1Other words from dogmatist
- an·ti·dog·ma·tist, noun, adjective
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How to use dogmatist in a sentence
To the modern dogmatist, these positions seem sceptical and pernicious.
The Arena | VariousNay, I am no cold-blooded theorist, no thick-hided dogmatist; nor am I a chastely simple young man mooning in virginal innocence.
The Kempton-Wace Letters | Jack LondonHe is often a dogmatist, but this fault is not peculiar to him, he shares it with the rest of mankind.
Preaching and Paganism | Albert Parker FitchYou have a perfect right to do so; but in that case you are the dogmatist.
Orthodoxy | G. K. ChestertonAnd the last great dogmatist, Leibniz, was the one who practised this method of uncritical assumption to the utmost extent.
History of Modern Philosophy | Alfred William Benn
British Dictionary definitions for dogmatist
/ (ˈdɒɡmətɪst) /
a dogmatic person
a person who formulates dogmas
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