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dogmatizer en · NOUN

Etymology

Etymology tree Ancient Greek δοκέω (dokéō) Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥ Proto-Hellenic *-mə Ancient Greek -μα (-ma) Ancient Greek δόγμα (dógma) Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íd͏̌d͏̌ō Ancient Greek -ίζω (-ízō) Ancient Greek δογματίζω (dogmatízō)bor. Late Latin dogmatizōbor. English dogmatize Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English dogmatizer From dogmatize + -er.

Meanings

1. One who dogmatizes; a bold asserter.
   • But in stead of any fuller view of these, I shall mention some few of those, which our closer, and later experience hath made most familiar to us, and given us reason to look on with a quickness of sense, and dread, but those such, as being not entred into the Confessions of any national Church, are not properly chargeable either on Papists, or Protestants, but on particular dogmatizers on both parties […] 1654, Henry Hammond, Of Fundamentals in a Notion referring to Practise:
   • If it was the case that native dogmatizers were prohibiting the use of Spanish before the huacas and the use of the name of Jesus, then the information implies a large degree of cultural and religious acculturation by 1617 in the Province of Lima. 2015, Andrew Redden, Diabolism in Colonial Peru, 1560–1750:

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Synonyms

dogmatist