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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