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Definitions of obscurantist in various dictionaries:
noun - a person who is deliberately vague
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| One who makes dim, daft subtractions |
| Wrong subtractions standing in the way of enlightenment |
| Resisting enlightenment, having messed up subtractions |
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| Aug 5 2018 The Telegraph - Cryptic |
| Mar 12 2017 The Telegraph - Cryptic |
| Mar 2 2017 The Guardian - Cryptic crossword |
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| A practitioner of obscurantism an obscurant |
| Full bDefinitionb of bOBSCURANTISMb. 1. : opposition to the spread of knowledge : a policy of withholding knowledge from the general public. a : a style (as in literature or art) characterized by deliberate vagueness or abstruseness. |
| a person who is deliberately vague |
| A person who deliberately prevents the facts or full details of something from becoming known. |
| Deliberately preventing the facts or full details of something from becoming known. |
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| Obscurantism ( and ) is the practice of deliberately presenting information in an imprecise and recondite manner, often designed to forestall further inquiry and understanding. There are two historical and intellectual denotations of Obscurantism: (1) the deliberate restriction of knowledgeopposition to disseminating knowledge; and, (2) deliberate obscurityan abstruse style (as in literature and art) characterized by deliberate vagueness.The term obscurantism derives from the title of the 16th-century satire Epistolæ Obscurorum Virorum (151519, Letters of Obscure Men), that was based upon the intellectual dispute between the German humanist Johann Reuchlin and the monk Johannes Pfefferkorn of the Dominican Order, about whether or not all Jewish books should be burned as un-Christian heresy. Earlier, in 1509, the monk Pfefferkorn had obtained permission from Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor (14861519), to burn all copies of the Talmud (Jewish law and Jewish ethics) known to be in the Ho |