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Latitudinarian

noun

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

... of the Buddhists. Brahmanism in its constitution and spirit is essentially exclusive and fanatical, jealous of all conflicting faiths, and strongly disposed to persecution. Buddhism, on the other hand, in the strength of its self-righteousness, extends a latitudinarian liberality to every other belief, and exhibits a Laodicean indifference towards its own. Whilst Brahmanism is a science confided only to an initiated priesthood; and the Vedas and the Shastras in which its precepts are embodied are kept with jealousy from the ...

— Ceylon; an Account of the Island Physical, Historical, and • James Emerson Tennent

... its friends, his adversaries. He professed himself a great admirer of its literature, and, in the heat of controversy, he often found himself a defender of its doctrines when he had occasion to expose the fallacy of latitudinarian interpretations. For liberal Christianity he had nothing but contempt, and refuted it with a scorn which spared none of the worldly tendencies of the church in Equity. The idea that souls were to be saved by church sociables filled him with inappeasable rancor; and he maintained the superiority ...

— A Modern Instance • William Dean Howells

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