(n.) The system or the principles of the obscurants.
Example Sentences:
(1) The notions of holism and ecology seem to suffer from obscurantism and esoteric elitism, though commendable in their scope.
(2) "They have forgotten that it is the people who grant the powers and not the emirs of obscurantism and sand," the paper said, referring to Qatar and Saudi Arabia.
(3) Magico-religious rituals of healing are still around, but some have been replaced by pseudo-scientific systems, thinly disguising old superstitions in new obscurantism, more appealing to the half-educated.
(4) The night of medieval obscurantism had descended on Afghanistan.
(5) This lack of definition makes it no easy place to write about, and the challenge has reduced many an otherwise intelligent observer to the comforts of obscurantism and polemic.
(6) The government was knocked for six initially and then responded with characteristic bureaucratic obscurantism.
Obscurantist
Definition:
(n.) Same as Obscurant.
Example Sentences:
(1) Costaguana identifies the origins of the split between liberals and conservatives in a 19th-century battle between anticlericals and obscurantists, at a time of a thriving free press and a democratic constitution.
(2) And when someone like Mizulina proposes extreme traditionalist measures, the Kremlin can curb her initiatives, signalling to society that if not for Putin, obscurantists would rule.
(3) How should we go about making sense of an obscurantist crime the better to vanquish it?
(4) Helena Kennedy, a leading QC, found it "obscurantist and difficult to fathom".
(5) The question should not be whether you agree with him (although I would doubt your sanity if you agreed with his whole obscurantist world view) but: by what right does he interfere?
(6) The reason was not to be found in his beliefs - which, in their narrow, obscurantist, religious frame, were far removed from the South African's lofty humanism and compassion - but in the facts of his career, and the part that certain, very personal, qualities - of selflessness, simplicity, conviction and a true sense of service - played in bringing it to fruition.
(7) Failure is often hidden in obscurantist masses of data manipulated to support whatever position is sought to suit the desired situation.
(8) The former is dismissed for being obscurantist and the second for being quixotic.
(9) Today's saccharine sanctimony will try to whiten the sepulchre of yet another Pope whose obscurantist faith has caused pointless suffering; it is no defence that he was only obeying higher orders.
(10) On the religious front, Assad seems to be going out of his way to please Sunni obscurantists.
(11) Eradicate the slums, remove religious bigots from all educational contact with children and give kids brought up in obscurantist faiths an education that insists the prejudices of their parents may be mistaken.
(12) Modi may have won the election on a plank of economic reform, but for the various Hindu rightwing groups his victory appears to have provided justification to begin attacks on Muslims , including launching a campaign to “protect” Hindu women from a Muslim “love jihad” and attacking text books and histories that don’t toe their obscurantist lines.
(13) But for Russia, the assertion of some sort of distinctive values is broader than a return to obscurantist conservatism and part of the larger reassertion of cultural and civilisational pluralism and diversity.