dogmatically

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/dɔɡˈmætɪcli/US, cot caught merger/dɑɡˈmætɪcli/

adverb

In a dogmatic manner.

UncommonScrabble 21

Meanings

adverbdogmatically (comparative more dogmatically, superlative most dogmatically)

comparative more dogmatically · superlative most dogmatically

  1. In a dogmatic manner.

    […] the number of people who either dogmatically don’t believe in, or else agnostically or uncaringly, simply don’t bother about immortality is now considerable.

    1931, Aldous Huxley, “Squeak and Gibber”, in Music at Night and Other Essays, London: Chatto & Windus
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    Such Works, in point of Precepts, are of the Number of thoſe that are call'd ſpecious, in which the Authors, whilſt they endeavour too exactly to explain what they have dogmatically advanc'd, loſe themſelves in imaginary Mazes, and bewilder themſelves more and more.

    1717, Louis Liger, “Of the Flowers that are to be Sown in the Month of March, and of the Manner of Raising Them”, in George London, Henry Wise, transl., The Retir’d Gardener. In Six Parts […] , →OCLC, part the fifth, page 269

    Dogmatic people are often closed-minded, and dogmatically held beliefs are often closed-mindedly maintained; but a belief held closed-mindedly need not be held dogmatically: it may be maintained with a guilty realization that emotionally one simply cannot stand to listen to challenges of it, and with an awareness that it might be mistaken.

    1993, Robert Audi, The Structure of Justification, →ISBN, page 154

    The nature-based tools with which we work, whatever they are—yoga, astrology, yoni eggs, herbal remedies—aren't meant to be used dogmatically as crutches or bandages, but are symbols that remind us of ourselves.

    2016, Chartreuse Tembo Barriere, The Yoni Egg Shadow Integration Workbook, page 7

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Translations

Catalan dogmàticament
  • dogmàticamentin a dogmatic manner
French dogmatiquement
  • dogmatiquementin a dogmatic manner
Italian dogmaticamente
  • dogmaticamentein a dogmatic manner
Portuguese dogmaticamente
  • dogmaticamentein a dogmatic manner
Spanish dogmáticamente
  • dogmáticamentein a dogmatic manner
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