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Meanings of doctrinaire in English

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A stubborn person of arbitrary or arrogant opinions.

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        Doctrinaire.

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                Usage of doctrinaire in English
                1
                It slays the doctrinaire and makes a red-hot revivalist out of him.
                The Heart-Cry of Jesus
                2
                I'm not a doctrinaire socialist but Labour would not have done this.
                The Guardian
                3
                He had the pride, at once resigned and overweening, of a doctrinaire.
                Queen Victoria
                4
                Kossuth, like all English statesmen, was a historical royalist, not a doctrinaire.
                Select Speeches of Kossuth
                5
                The little doctrinaire in her revolted and she was pleased to be censorious.
                The Half-Hearted
                6
                Where Mr Lafontaine was doctrinaire and flamboyant, his successor is pragmatic and considered.
                The Irish Times
                7
                But Nature, who has no doctrinaire ideas, may equally apply it to concentration.
                The Lair of the White Worm
                8
                Granted, even central bankers with academic economics backgrounds aren't necessarily doctrinaire.
                Reuters
                9
                He was often more of a doctrinaire than a practical statesman.
                Thomas Jefferson, a Character Sketch
                10
                A doctrinaire, there was nothing of the typical doctrinaire, or theorist, about him.
                Marse Henry (Volume 2) / An Autobiography
                11
                Belgian Health Minister Laurette Onkelinx said the pope's comments... reflect a dangerous doctrinaire vision.
                Reuters
                12
                You don't have to look far for all sorts of uncompromising, doctrinaire, brook-no-criticism behaviour.
                BBC
                13
                I think fiction has a way of doing this without being doctrinaire about it.
                Say you're one of them
                14
                It would do no harm to stir up the doctrinaire assumptions with the bayonet-poker.
                By the Christmas Fire
                15
                Our own intolerant, bigoted, unthinking, doctrinaire reactionaries are properly referred to as 'conservative thinkers.'
                Ashes Of Victory
                16
                And we're not too you know, too doctrinaire about it.
                The new yorker
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