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obscurantism

NOUN
  1. a deliberate act intended to make something obscure
  2. a policy of opposition to enlightenment or the spread of knowledge

How To Use obscurantism In A Sentence

  • Of course under some circumstances you find yourself skirting the edge of obscurantism.
  • Is it time to obfuscate obscurantism, so to speak, even to oneself?
  • I'm positively depressed with the levels of prejudice and obscurantism I've witnessed in modern day Scotland.
  • The mistake I made was to use the word 'obscurantism' for the common tendency among Orthodox to hold, in my words, that "nothing can be well studied while prescinding from divine revelation. Ever ancient, ever new...arguments
  • His writing, however, has been criticised by some for grandiloquence and obscurantism.
  • They invite questions but also somehow avoid pretentiousness, obscurantism or any form of exclusivity.
  • Even some people think that he was a representative of the slave owners, who carried out a policy of obscurantism .
  • Religious prejudice and scientific obscurantism have been closely entangled throughout the whole history of this debate.
  • Мракобесие is usually rendered as obscurantism, which isn't always a satisfying translation. The St. Petersburg Times
  • It is hoped that in their absence, other scientists will come forward to champion science against religious obscurantism before masses of people.
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