obscurant
noun
a person who strives to prevent the increase and spread of knowledge.
obscurantist
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a word derived from
obscurant.
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a word derived from
obscurantism.
obscurantismnounopposition to the increase and spread of knowledge.
Example Sentences
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There’s a 2022 documentary called “Lynch/Oz” that ruminates on the ties between the befuddling obscurantist and the eternal blockbuster.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 17, 2025
The course instructor, Daniel Gabriel, a young poet, found her student verse, as he told Spiegelman, “overwritten, obscurantist and difficult.”
From Washington Post ● Mar. 3, 2023
Even his most devoted followers sometimes wonder whether his obscurantist tweets are serious or are made in jest.
From New York Times ● May 10, 2022
"We, lawyers, do not want a communitarian and obscurantist judiciary," they wrote in the French publication Marianne.
From Reuters ● Mar. 2, 2022
He may be printing "Gold and the Proletariate," or he may be printing obscurantist and retrogressive treatises by the enemies of humanity.
From Philistia by Grant Allen
