obscurantism

[Joe Allonby]

How sad that Kirkpatrick's party is the world's greatest practitioner
of obscurantism.

On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 3:26 AM, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com> wrote:
> A.Word.A.Day
> with Anu Garg
>
> obscurantism
>
> PRONUNCIATION:
> (uhb-SKYOOR-uhn-tiz-uhm, ob-skyoo-RAN-tiz-uhm)
>
> MEANING:
> noun:
> 1. Opposition to the spread of knowledge.
> 2. Being deliberately vague or obscure; also a style in art and literature.
>
> ETYMOLOGY:
> From Latin obscurare (to make dark).
>
> USAGE:
> "Jeane Kirkpatrick possessed the rare gift of being able to write
> subtle and challenging studies of international politics and to
> formulate strikingly simple and apt phrases to cut through
> obscurantism and cant."
> Joseph P. Duggan; Jeane Kirkpatrick Set a Very High Bar; St. Louis
> Post-Dispatch (Missouri); Dec 18, 200
>
> http://wordsmith.org/words/obscurantism.html
>