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noun
A person who obstinately adheres to old ways in spite of clear evidence that they are wrong; an ignorant and bigoted opponent of reform.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
An obvious error that is obstinately repeated despite correction.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
a traditional notion that is obstinately held although it is unreasonable
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: notion
History
Malapropism of Latin sumpsimus, form of sūmō (“to take”), from a story of an old monk who misrecited the Eucharist with quod in ōre mumpsimus instead of quod in ōre sumpsimus “which we have taken into the mouth”, and stubbornly continued using the incorrect form even after being corrected. Attested 1530 in The Practice of Prelates by William Tyndale, variously attributed to Richard Pace (1517) or Desiderius Erasmus.
