obscurantist

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Gell-Mann noted that "the last refuge of the obscurantists and mystifiers is self-awareness, consciousness."

From Scientific American • May 26, 2019

It is not a perfectly wrapped present for jazz fans, rap nerds, the rustic Americana brigade, dance-music kids, metal-heads, avant-garde obscurantists, post-college hipster generalists or the classically trained.

From New York Times • Mar. 31, 2014

"Great men," wrote Critic Ivor Brown, firing a blanket salvo at all Joycean obscurantists, "are not so silly as to make a practice of wasting their words."

From Time Magazine Archive

His opponents were regarded as obscurantists, who, rather than the object of their attack, were endangering Judaism.

From A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy by Husik, Isaac

"Behold," cried the Voice, vibrating vehemently, "you have allowed yourself to be diverted by the sinister councils of antiquated obscurantists from implicit faith in my programmes and prescriptions!"

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 104, February 4, 1893 by Burnand, F. C. (Francis Cowley), Sir