And he is not above feeling grave and well-contained satisfaction wherever the socialist doctrinaire has been contradicted by men attempting to practise coöperation in the midst of the competitive system, as in Belgium.
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Doctrinaire
Synonyms for "doctrinaire" (85 found)
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Catalan
1 entries- doctrinari adj (stubbornly holding on to an idea)
Czech
2 entries- doktrinářský adj (stubbornly holding on to an idea)
- doktrinář noun (person who stubbornly holds to a philosophy or opinion)
Finnish
2 entries- doktrinäärinen adj (stubbornly holding on to an idea)
- doktrinääri noun (person who stubbornly holds to a philosophy or opinion)
French
1 entries- doctrinaire adj (stubbornly holding on to an idea)
German
4 entries- doktrinär adj (stubbornly holding on to an idea)
- prinzipienreiterisch adj (stubbornly holding on to an idea)
- Doktrinär noun (person who stubbornly holds to a philosophy or opinion)
- Prinzipienreiter noun (person who stubbornly holds to a philosophy or opinion)
Hungarian
2 entries- doktriner adj (stubbornly holding on to an idea)
- doktriner noun (person who stubbornly holds to a philosophy or opinion)
Polish
2 entries- doktryner noun (person who stubbornly holds to a philosophy or opinion)
- doktrynerka noun (person who stubbornly holds to a philosophy or opinion)
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Or, shall we play the doctrinaire, and hint that at thirty-four the tides of life are calmer and cognizant of many sources instead of but one—as at four-and-twenty?
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Mr. Chapman began to talk in a loud voice about the situation in the House of Commons. He guffawed at his adversaries. The word doctrinaire—word full of terror to the British mind—reappeared from time to time between his explosions.
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We have been long accustomed to consider growth as applied almost exclusively to size in its various aspects. But Nature, who has no doctrinaire ideas, may equally apply it to concentration.
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