dogmatist
Americannoun
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a person who asserts their opinions in an unduly positive or arrogant manner; a dogmatic person.
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a person who lays down dogmas; one who prescribes doctrines.
noun
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a dogmatic person
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a person who formulates dogmas
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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
Example Sentences
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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
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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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