noun. An arrogantly assertive person.

noun. One who expresses or sets forth dogma.

noun. One who is dogmatic or maintains a dogma or dogmas; a magisterial teacher; one who asserts positively doctrines or opinions unsupported by argument or evidence.

noun. [capitalized] One of a sect of ancient physicians founded by Hippocrates, and named in contradistinction to Empirics and Methodists.

noun. One who dogmatizes; one who speaks dogmatically; a bold and arrogant advancer of principles.

noun. A stubborn, assertive, opinionated person.

noun. a stubborn person of arbitrary or arrogant opinions

"There is, I believe, a widespread loathing for the difficulties of much modernist and postmodernist writing, but out of fear of being called a dogmatist or worse, the loathing is concealed."

dogmatic  dogmatism  

drumbeater  partisan  zealot  

5tn  Anglophile  bookman  dialectician  disbeliever  

ass  bigot  bitter-ender  bullethead  chauvinist