dogmatizer

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noun

One who dogmatizes; a bold asserter.

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Scrabble 23

Meanings

noundogmatizer (plural dogmatizers)

plural dogmatizers

  1. One who dogmatizes; a bold asserter.

    If it was the case that native dogmatizers were prohibiting the use of Spanish before the huacas and the use of the name of Jesus, then the information implies a large degree of cultural and religious acculturation by 1617 in the Province of Lima.

    2015, Andrew Redden, Diabolism in Colonial Peru, 1560–1750
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    But in stead of any fuller view of these, I shall mention some few of those, which our closer, and later experience hath made most familiar to us, and given us reason to look on with a quickness of sense, and dread, but those such, as being not entred into the Confessions of any national Church, are not properly chargeable either on Papists, or Protestants, but on particular dogmatizers on both parties […]

    1654, Henry Hammond, Of Fundamentals in a Notion referring to Practise

    Synonyms: dogmatist

Synonyms & antonyms

nounOne who dogmatizes; a bold asserter.

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Origin

  1. Ancient Greekδοκέω (dokéō)
  2. Ancient Greekδόγμα (dógma)
  3. Ancient Greekδογματίζω (dogmatízō)
  4. Late Latindogmatizō
  5. Englishdogmatize
  6. Englishdogmatizer

From dogmatize + -er.

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APA

dogmatizer. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dogmatizer

MLA

“dogmatizer.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dogmatizer. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “dogmatizer,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dogmatizer.

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