Doctrinaire: alternatives and connections

Having power to inform, animate, or vivify.

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Having power to inform, animate, or vivify.

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Conveying knowledge; serving to instruct or inform; as, experience furnishes very instructive lessons.

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Conveying knowledge; serving to instruct or inform; as, experience furnishes very instructive lessons.

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An adherent to a party or faction; esp., one who is strongly and passionately devoted to a party or an interest.

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One who is zealous; one who engages warmly in any cause, and pursues his object with earnestness and ardor; especially, one who is overzealous, or ca…

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The manner or character of a dogmatist; arrogance or positiveness in stating opinion.

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The manner or character of a dogmatist; arrogance or positiveness in stating opinion.

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One who dogmatizes; one who speaks dogmatically; a bold and arrogant advancer of principles.

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One who dogmatizes; one who speaks dogmatically; a bold and arrogant advancer of principles.

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To assert positively; to teach magisterially or with bold and undue confidence; to advance with arrogance.

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To assert positively; to teach magisterially or with bold and undue confidence; to advance with arrogance.

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One who dogmatizes; one who speaks dogmatically; a bold and arrogant advancer of principles.

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