Meaning of Doctrinaire | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A person who stubbornly holds to a philosophy or opinion regardless of its feasibility.
2. In France, in 1815–30, one of a school who desired a constitution like that of Britain.
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Examples

“And he is not above feeling grave and well-contained satisfaction wherever the socialist doctrinaire has been contradicted by men attempting to practise coöperation in the midst of the competitive system, as in Belgium.”

“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?”

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