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Counter-Enlightenment

Noun

Meaning

Counter-Enlightenment (plural Counter-Enlightenments)

Any of various strains of thought that arose in the late 18th and early 19th centuries in opposition to the 18th-century Enlightenment.

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Examples

From the start there was a Counter-Enlightenment in which conservative and clerical defenders of traditional religion attacked materialism and skepticism as evil forces that encouraged immorality. Source: Internet

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