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‘Some religious books counted as mere exoteric teaching for the masses.’
‘By contrast with his exoteric presentation at Birkbeck a week ago, his lecture last night - aimed ‘at comrades’ - was a much more focused affair.’
‘They believed also in esoteric meanings accessible only to the powerful elite, as opposed to exoteric doctrine suitable for the masses.’
‘The ordinary people are required to accept the Quran in its literal or exoteric sense whereas the philosophers have much more discretion in interpreting scriptural truth.’
‘This seems untrue to me, since the Will to Power was merely Nietzsche's exoteric doctrine.’
Origin
Mid 17th century: via Latin from Greek exōterikos, from exōterō ‘outer’, comparative of exō ‘outside’.