doctrinarian
English
Noun
doctrinarian (plural doctrinarians)
- A doctrinaire.
- 1872, John Henry Newman, Discussions and Arguments
- Protestantism is embodied in a system; so is Popery: but when a man takes up this Via Media, he is a mere doctrinarian—he is wasting his efforts in delineating an invisible phantom; and he will be judged, and fairly, to be trifling, and bookish
- 1872, John Henry Newman, Discussions and Arguments
References
doctrinarian in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
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