secretist

Example Sentences

• "Boyle condemned "the avarice" of those "secretists" who secured profit through the practice of intellectual privacy ."
• "Laboratories were to be contrasted with the private shrines of "secretist” philosophers and Hermetics whom Boyle criticized for their refusal to communicate in public."
• "They reinforce their linkage of the Royal Society's program with Restoration social order by heaping together as ther opposite "the knowledge claims of alchemical 'secretists' and of sectarian ' enthusiasts ' who claimed individual and unmediated inspiration from God , or whose solitary treading [ sic ] of the Book of Nature produced unverifiable observational testimony ."
• "The thirteenth century Zohar, a Jewish mystical text, announced its value in secretist terms, featuring as its main sections "The Secret Midrash,” Midrash ha-Neelam, and “Secrets of the Torah” Sitre Torah."
• "An exhibitionist rather than a secretist, Crowley published much material that was previously hidden from the public."
• "The monarch frames his defense with a definition of a good prince as categorically without private interests: "for Kings being publike persons, by reason of the office and authority, are as it were set (as it was said of old) upon a publike stage, in the sight of all the people, where all the beholders eyes are attentively bent to look and pry in the last circumstance of their secretist drifts.""