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dog·ma·tism
/ˈdɔgməˌtɪzəm, ˈdɒg-/ [dawg-muh-tiz-uhm, dog-]
–noun
dogmatic character; unfounded positiveness in matters of opinion; arrogant assertion of opinions as truths.
Origin:
1595–1605; < LL dogmatismus, equiv. to L dogmat(icus) dogmatic + -ismus -ism; r. dogmatisme < F
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dog·ma·tism (dôg'mə-tĭz'əm, dŏg'-)
n. Arrogant, stubborn assertion of opinion or belief.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
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How Ambrose Bierce may have put it:
dog·ma·tism
n. The state of mind in which a subjective 'truth', cherished by one, substantially outweighs the subjective truth of another, particularly if that other happens to be a misguided fool. The assertion of dogma as absolute has often been reinforced in past eras with such convincing arguments as immolation at the stake, hanging, immurement, stoning, drowning, beheading, evisceration, drawing and quartering, flaying or impalement. Typically these arguments were preceeded by attempts to extract confessions of heresy or consorting with the devil, repeated duckings in water at the end of a cantilever, various probings, elevations of the body via unnatural displacement of certain limbs, forced draughts of water or heated liquids or metals, and also frequently, the courtesy of excommunication, thereby saving the accused from the arduous and often tedious task of renouncing the good graces of mother church on their own.
dog·ma·tism
/ˈdɔgməˌtɪzəm, ˈdɒg-/ [dawg-muh-tiz-uhm, dog-]
–noun
dogmatic character; unfounded positiveness in matters of opinion; arrogant assertion of opinions as truths.
Origin:
1595–1605; < LL dogmatismus, equiv. to L dogmat(icus) dogmatic + -ismus -ism; r. dogmatisme < F
Dictionary.com Unabridged
Based on the Random House Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2010.
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dog·ma·tism (dôg'mə-tĭz'əm, dŏg'-)
n. Arrogant, stubborn assertion of opinion or belief.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
******
How Ambrose Bierce may have put it:
dog·ma·tism
n. The state of mind in which a subjective 'truth', cherished by one, substantially outweighs the subjective truth of another, particularly if that other happens to be a misguided fool. The assertion of dogma as absolute has often been reinforced in past eras with such convincing arguments as immolation at the stake, hanging, immurement, stoning, drowning, beheading, evisceration, drawing and quartering, flaying or impalement. Typically these arguments were preceeded by attempts to extract confessions of heresy or consorting with the devil, repeated duckings in water at the end of a cantilever, various probings, elevations of the body via unnatural displacement of certain limbs, forced draughts of water or heated liquids or metals, and also frequently, the courtesy of excommunication, thereby saving the accused from the arduous and often tedious task of renouncing the good graces of mother church on their own.