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obscuˈrantic, a.
[f. obscurant n. and a. + -ic.]
Opposed to enquiry or enlightenment. So obscuˈranticism = obscurantism. Also obscuranˈtistic a.
1926Contemp. Rev. Nov. 661 The book..is full of warnings which sometimes are obvious and sometimes obscurantic. 1927Ibid. Feb. 208 It would not be a work of truth or of love, but of well-meaning though mischievous obscuranticism. 1934Amer. Speech IX. 278/1 The moralists..are in reality ensuring that the minds of the young will develop into the same welter of obscurantistic obsessions as their own. 1941F. Matthiessen Amer. Renaissance xiv. iv. 653 Where Hawthorne's criticism runs no risk of being obscurantistic is in his portrait of Hollingsworth. |