obstructionist

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He has been a student of Huxley and Spencer and Darwin,—enough to alarm the old school,—and yet remained so ardent a supernaturalist as equally to repel the radical destructionists in religion.

From Authors and Friends by Fields, Annie

As a matter of fact, neither reformers in general nor Freethinkers in particular deserve the charge of being mere destructionists.

From A Grammar of Freethought by Cohen, Chapman

We do not say that the destructionists desired to injure the faith of the people, or to cast odium upon the pages that Luther and Melanchthon had unfolded to the German heart.

From History of Rationalism Embracing a Survey of the Present State of Protestant Theology by Hurst, J. F. (John Fletcher)

In the eyes of the Church, the Lollards were heretics; in the judgment of many moderate men, they were destructionists and anarchists, as unreasonable and as dangerous as the "dynamiters" of to-day.

From The Leading Facts of English History by Montgomery, D. H. (David Henry)

Their associates, it is true, are to be men of liberal opinions, some of them verging upon Chartism, and others avowed ecclesiastical destructionists; but that need not deter them from accepting and retaining office.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 370, August 1846 by Various