ignorantistn.
/ˈɪɡn(ə)rəntɪst/, /ˈɪɡn(ə)rn̩tɪst/, U.S. /ˈɪɡnərən(t)əst/ rare.
A person who believes in or advocates the value or benefits of remaining ignorant. Cf. ignorantism n.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > want of knowledge, ignorance > intellectual ignorance > [noun] > opposition to enlightenment > one who opposes
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1841 C. Fleming & J. Tibbins Grand Dictionnaire Français-Anglais II. 552/1 Ignorantiste, [partisan de l'ignorantisme] ignorantist, anti-educationalist.
1890 B. O'Reilly John Mac Hale I. vii. 80 He was himself too ardent an inquirer, and he earnestly sought for his people the opening up of all the legitimate avenues to knowledge, ever to be looked upon as an ‘ignorantist’.
1966 Daily Tar Heel (Chapel Hill, N. Carolina) 8 Nov. 2 It is always a blow to education when any school bows to the ignorantists.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2022).
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n.1841- out of the question
- out of the reach of
- out of the reckoning
- out of the red
- out of the reverence of
- out of the road
- out of the road of
- out of the running
- out of the smoke into the fire
- out of the straw
- out of the top drawer
- out of the top of one's head
- out of the true
- out of the waterwards
- out of the way
- out of the way of
- out of the whole cloth
- out of the wood
- out of the woods
- out of the wool
- out of theats
- out of theet
- out of this world
- out of time
- out of tone