Definitionn. a policy of opposition to enlightenment or the spread of knowledge
Last update: October 9, 2015
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Has outlived its day may be justly identified with obscurantism, but not so the systems of those who, by their intellectual force alone, once held all the minds of Europe in subjection. [Please select]
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Servility and obscurantism have never resumed their old sway in South America. [Please select]
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In Spanish America the obscurantism was at least as great and the other faults probably greater. [Please select]
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Murphy was not told many of these latter things, though obscurantism is always to be utterly condemned. [Please select]
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Lord Eldon was always before him as the typical representative of obstruction and obscurantism. [Please select]
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The biggest ruin on Athos is a boys' school planned in the eighteenth century to meet the educational needs of all the Orthodox in the Ottoman Empire, and wrecked on the reefs of monastic obscurantism. [Please select]
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