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DOGMATICALLY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does dogmatically mean?
• DOGMATICALLY (adverb)
The adverb DOGMATICALLY has 1 sense:
1. in a narrow-minded dogmatic manner
Familiarity information: DOGMATICALLY used as an adverb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
In a narrow-minded dogmatic manner
Context example:
he is a dogmatically opinionated critic of Modern Art
Pertainym:
dogmatic (characterized by assertion of unproved or unprovable principles)
Context examples
"It is not life," he delivered himself dogmatically.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
You state dogmatically the latest facts which science has been able to establish only by a posteriori reasoning.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
They sat on through the passing glory of the day, talking as lovers are prone to talk, marvelling at the wonder of love and at destiny that had flung them so strangely together, and dogmatically believing that they loved to a degree never attained by lovers before.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
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