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.”
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