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Latitudinarian

noun
1.
A person who is broad-minded and tolerant (especially in standards of religious belief and conduct).






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"Latitudinarian" Quotes from Famous Books



... Presbyterian Duke, And Anglican Archbishop, mustered up With Tabernacular Tubthumper, gowned Taffy, And broad-burred Boanerges from the North, Mingled with Pantheist bards, Agnostic Peers, And lawyers latitudinarian,— Lord Mayor's Show of Paul Pry pageantry, All to play Mentor to the Muscovite! Master of many millions! Oh, most monstrous! Are we Turk dogs that they should do this ...
— Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 99., Dec. 20, 1890 • Various

... perceive that the triunit consisting of perception, appetence, and motion, constitutes the celebrated irritability of our author. But he has been too latitudinarian in his application of the theory; for he did not limit it, as HALLER has subsequently done, to one sort of fibres, or indeed to fibres alone, for he says in cap. IX., "It is to be remarked that natural ...
— North American Medical and Surgical Journal, Vol. 2, No. 3, July, 1826 • Various

... away; but his words touched a responsive chord in the breast of President Madison. On March 3, 1817, as he was about to leave office, he sent to Congress a message vetoing the Internal Improvements Bill and warning his party associates of the danger of latitudinarian views of the Constitution. This message was Madison's farewell address. It was thoroughly characteristic of the man ...
— Union and Democracy • Allen Johnson



Words linked to "Latitudinarian" :   faith, free-thinking, religious belief, latitude, liberalist, liberal, religion, progressive, broad-minded



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