Thesaurus / doctrinaire
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Even though HBES members were in the avant garde of studying human behavior from an evolutionary perspective, most of them were doctrinaire in their rejection of group selection.
E.O. WILSON SAW THE WORLD IN A WHOLLY NEW WAY - ISSUE 112: INSPIRATIONDAVID SLOAN WILSONJANUARY 5, 2022NAUTILUSTo these, as a "forward" party, the doctrinaire theorists have allied themselves.
THE NEW SOCIETYWALTHER RATHENAUIf his mind did not naturally work that way he would not be a Doctrinaire.
BY THE CHRISTMAS FIRESAMUEL MCCHORD CROTHERSThe Doctrinaire can never realize the fatal nature of the "too-much."
BY THE CHRISTMAS FIRESAMUEL MCCHORD CROTHERSNone the less, all attempts to win the working men from the doctrinaire Socialists failed.
ENCYCLOPAEDIA BRITANNICA, 11TH EDITION, VOLUME 11, SLICE 8VARIOUSThe strength of the new party was frittered away in doctrinaire factional strife between the single taxers and the socialists.
A HISTORY OF TRADE UNIONISM IN THE UNITED STATESSELIG PERLMANHe belonged to the doctrinaire party, and was several times in office under Louis-Philippe.
MEMOIRS OF THE DUCHESSE DE DINO V.1/3, 1831-1835DOROTHY DUCHESSE DE DINOIt is now admitted that the Socialists have been mere voting machines and doctrinaire opportunists.
GERMAN PROBLEMS AND PERSONALITIESCHARLES SAROLEAGregg's point of view is that of a sympathizer with the Missouri backwoodsman; Maximilian's is that of the doctrinaire.
TRAVELS IN THE INTERIOR OF NORTH AMERICA, 1832-1834, PART III (THE TEXT BEING CHAPTERS XXVIII-XXXIII OF THE LONDON EDITION, 1843, AND THE APPENDIX A COMBINATION OF THE APPENDICES OF THE LONDON AND GERMAN [COBLENTZ, 1839] EDITIONS)MAXIMILIAN, PRINZ VON WIEDThey were revolutionary Marxists—doctrinaire to the bone—saturated with the dialectic.
THE I.W.W.PAUL FREDERICK BRISSENDENWORDS RELATED TO DOCTRINAIRE
- a priori
- as a matter of course
- assertive
- authoritarian
- authoritative
- axiomatic
- by fiat
- by natural law
- by nature
- canonical
- categorical
- deducible
- deductive
- derivable
- doctrinaire
- doctrinal
- eternal
- excathedra
- formal
- imperative
- inevitable
- on faith
- oracular
- orthodox
- peremptory
- positive
- pragmatic
- prophetic
- reasoned
- systematic
- theoretical
- unchangeable
- unerring
- unqualified
- adamant
- arbitrary
- assertive
- biased
- bigoted
- bossy
- bullheaded
- cocksure
- cocky
- conceited
- dictatorial
- doctrinaire
- dogmatic
- hard-line
- high-handed
- inflexible
- intransigent
- locked-in
- obdurate
- obstinate
- one-sided
- oracular
- overbearing
- pigheaded
- positive
- pragmatic
- pragmatical
- prejudiced
- self-assertive
- set in stone
- set on
- single-minded
- stubborn
- tilted
- uncompromising
- unyielding
- weighted
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