Crossword-Solution: DOCTRINAIRE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Doctrinaire | n. | One who would apply to political or other practical concerns the abstract doctrines or the theories of his own philosophical system; a propounder of a new set of opinions; a dogmatic theorist. Used also adjectively; as, doctrinaire notions. |
We have 27 clues for the answer “DOCTRINAIRE”
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| stubbornly insistent on theory without regard for practicality or suitability | 1 answer |
| doctrinarian | 1 answer |
| a person who tries to apply principle without allowance for circumstance; a pedantic theorist | 1 answer |
| An impractical theorist or "rainbow chaser." | 1 answer |
| theoretician | 5 answers |
| hypothesist | 6 answers |
| opinionist | 7 answers |
| self-opinionated person | 10 answers |
| indefeasible | 13 answers |
| OVERLY precise person | 16 answers |
| magisterial | 17 answers |
| Thinker | 17 answers |
| GUESSER | 25 answers |
| incontestable | 30 answers |
| dogmatist | 35 answers |
| theorist | 36 answers |
| Bigot | 43 answers |
| authoritative | 48 answers |
| Zealot | 48 answers |
| dogmatic | 52 answers |
| indubitable | 53 answers |
| Fanatic | 54 answers |
| fanatical | 66 answers |
| mulish | 69 answers |
| Immovable | 70 answers |
| dictatorial | 71 answers |
| Obstinate | 82 answers |
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Sentences with DOCTRINAIRE (5)
The bill, though opposed mainly by representatives from the Southern States, where doctrinaire politics and orthodox theology were in strong alliance with negro slavery, was passed by both Houses of Congress, but vetoed by President Buchanan, in whom the doctrinaire and orthodox spirit was incarnate.
Who wants to be consistent? The dullard and the doctrinaire, the tedious people who carry out their principles to the bitter end of action, to the _reductio ad absurdum_ of practice.
And he is not above feeling grave and well-contained satisfaction wherever the socialist doctrinaire has been contradicted by men attempting to practise cooperation in the midst of the competitive system, as in Belgium.
The Eclectic, the Syncretist, the Doctrinaire, have been apt to have a bad name both in ancient and modern times.
Upon what shallow waters can the bark of passion remain afloat! Or, shall we play the doctrinaire, and hint that at thirty-four the tides of life are calmer and cognizant of many sources instead of but one--as at four-and-twenty? Victor Fauquier would never be found.
Quotes with DOCTRINAIRE (3)
The older Puritans had trampled down all fleshly impulses; these newer Puritans trampled no less self-righteously upon the spiritual cravings. But in the increasingly spiritistic inclination of physics itself, Behaviorism and Fundamentalism had found a meeting place. Since the ultimate stuff of the physical universe was now said to be multitudinous and arbitrary “quanta” of the activity “spirits”, how easy was it for the materialistic and the spiritistic to agree? At heart, i…
The more I allow myself to face that truth about my participation in a violent world, the more my faith and my intellect call me to humility and compassion rather than to doctrinaire ethics. I cannot hope for a clear conscience. I can only hope that my ethical choices are motivated by love rather than fear.
Mainly, though, the Democratic Party has become the party of reaction. In reaction to a war that is ill conceived, we appear suspicious of all military action. In reaction to those who proclaim the market can cure all ills, we resist efforts to use market principles to tackle pressing problems. In reaction to religious overreach, we equate tolerance with secularism, and forfeit the moral language that would help infuse our policies with a larger meaning. We lose elections and…
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Appears in: Newsday, NYT.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1959–2013).