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obscurantists

obscurantists is the plural of obscurantist.

Meaning of obscurantist

Noun

obscurantist (plural obscurantists)

  1. A practitioner of obscurantism; an obscurant.
    • Aeschylus is not of design an obscurantist, but […] he distorts or omits facts.1924, Herbert Weir Smyth, “III. The Persians”, in Aeschylean Tragedy, page 84

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Questions about obscurantists

What is obscurantists the plural of?
Obscurantists is the plural of obscurantist.

Words near obscurantists in the dictionary

  1. obscurantic
  2. obscurantism
  3. obscurantisms
  4. obscurantist
  5. obscurantistic
  6. obscurantists
  7. obscurantly
  8. obscurants
  9. obscurate
  10. obscurated
  11. obscurates

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