dogmatism

  • 71Certainty — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Certainty >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 certainty certainty Sgm: N 1 necessity necessity &c. 601 Sgm: N 1 certitude certitude surety assurance Sgm: N 1 dead certainty dead certainty moral certainty …

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  • 72Affirmation — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Affirmation >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 affirmance affirmance affirmation Sgm: N 1 statement statement allegation assertion predication declaration word averment Sgm: N 1 confirmation confirmation …

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  • 73dogmatic — dog|mat|ic [dɔgˈmætık US do:g , da:g ] adj someone who is dogmatic is completely certain of their beliefs and expects other people to accept them without arguing ▪ Her staff find her bossy and dogmatic. >dogmatically [ kli] adv >dogmatism… …

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  • 74egotist — 1714, first used by Joseph Addison; see EGO (Cf. ego) + IST (Cf. ist). The t is perhaps by influence of DOGMATISM (Cf. dogmatism). Addison credits the term to Port Royalists who used it in reference to obtrusive use of first person sing. pronoun… …

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  • 75bigotry — noun the intolerance and prejudice of a bigot • Syn: ↑dogmatism • Derivationally related forms: ↑dogmatist (for: ↑dogmatism) • Hypernyms: ↑intolerance …

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  • 76dog|ma|tism — «DG muh tihz uhm, DOG », noun. positive and emphatic assertion of opinion. »Dogmatism is likely to arouse opposition. Where there is most doubt there is often the most dogmatism (William H. Prescott) …

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  • 77Dogma — Dog ma (d[o^]g m[.a]), n.; pl. E. {Dogmas} (d[o^]g m[.a]z), L. {Dogmata} (d[o^]g m[.a]*t[.a]). [L. dogma, Gr. do gma, pl. do gmata, fr. dokei^n to think, seem, appear; akin to L. decet it is becoming. Cf. {Decent}.] 1. That which is held as an… …

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  • 78Dogmas — Dogma Dog ma (d[o^]g m[.a]), n.; pl. E. {Dogmas} (d[o^]g m[.a]z), L. {Dogmata} (d[o^]g m[.a]*t[.a]). [L. dogma, Gr. do gma, pl. do gmata, fr. dokei^n to think, seem, appear; akin to L. decet it is becoming. Cf. {Decent}.] 1. That which is held as …

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  • 79Dogmata — Dogma Dog ma (d[o^]g m[.a]), n.; pl. E. {Dogmas} (d[o^]g m[.a]z), L. {Dogmata} (d[o^]g m[.a]*t[.a]). [L. dogma, Gr. do gma, pl. do gmata, fr. dokei^n to think, seem, appear; akin to L. decet it is becoming. Cf. {Decent}.] 1. That which is held as …

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  • 80Magistrality — Mag is*tral i*ty, n.; pl. { ties}. Magisterialness; arbitrary dogmatism. Bacon. [1913 Webster] …

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