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Obscurantist and yet earthy enough to have been deemed obscene, it has become a cultural touchstone without getting any easier to read.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 25, 2022

Obscurantist, name given to an opponent to modern enlightenment as professed by the devotees of modern science and philosophy.

From The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge by Nuttall, P. Austin

Obscurantist he is, and obscurantist he will remain: p. 69he is our great impediment to serious study—study, that is, of anything except so-called classical texts. 

From The Casual Ward academic and other oddments by Godley, A. D. (Alfred Denis)