doctrinaire

Borrowed from French doctrinaire, from doctrine +‎ -aire.

doctrinaire (plural doctrinaires)

1. A person who stubbornly holds to a philosophy or opinion regardless of its feasibility.
2. (historical) In France, in 1815-30, one of a school who desired a constitution like that of Britain.

doctrinaire (comparative more doctrinaire, superlative most doctrinaire)

1. Stubbornly holding on to an idea without concern for practicalities or reality.

• docent
• docile
• doctor
• doctorate
• doctrinal
• doctrine
• document
• indoctrinate

• "doctrinaire" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 108.

doctrine +‎ -aire

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doctrinaire m or f (plural doctrinaires)

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doctrinaire (plural doctrinaires)

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• doctrinairement