Doctrinaire (adj)
dok-truh-nair
dogmatic about others’ acceptance of one’s ideas
First recorded in 1810–20 as a noun to refer to a member of a specific French political party. Combines doctrine + the suffix -aire, meaning “someone characterized by or occupied with.”
Example sentences
“The doctrinaire audience meant that whatever was published, there’d always be someone to disagree.”
Medley (noun) med-lee a mixture, especially of heterogeneous elements; hodgepodge; jumble. First recorded in 1300–50; Middle English noun and adjective medle(e), medlei(e), maedlai(e) “battle, war, quarrel; mixture, balanced mixture,” from…
