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doctrinarians

doctrinarians is the plural of doctrinarian.

Meaning of doctrinarian

Noun

doctrinarian (plural doctrinarians)

  1. A doctrinaire.
    • 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 bookish1872, John Henry Newman, Discussions and Arguments

Questions about doctrinarians

What is doctrinarians the plural of?
Doctrinarians is the plural of doctrinarian.

Words near doctrinarians in the dictionary

  1. doctrinally
  2. doctrinals
  3. doctrinarian
  4. doctrinarianism
  5. doctrinarianisms
  6. doctrinarians
  7. doctrinarily
  8. doctrinarity
  9. doctrinary
  10. doctrination
  11. doctrinations

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