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Pluralist

noun
1.
A cleric who holds more than one benefice at a time.
2.
A philosopher who believes that no single explanation can account for all the phenomena of nature.
3.
Someone who believes that distinct ethnic or cultural or religious groups can exist together in society.





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"Pluralist" Quotes from Famous Books



... the sound and scholarly exegesis of my Sunday evening discourses at St. Fredegond's!—then, indeed, I might be disposed to regard things through a more satisfied medium —the medium of a nice, fat, juicy country living. But for you, Le Breton—you, sir, a pluralist and a sanguisorb of the deepest dye—to reproach me with my ...
— Philistia • Grant Allen
... about a hundred," replied I, and left him gasping. I fear that he now thinks that either I am quite mad or that Mrs. Dawson is a pluralist ...
— The Lost Naval Papers • Bennet Copplestone


Words linked to "Pluralist" :   churchman, pluralism, liberalist, philosopher, divine, ecclesiastic, cleric, liberal, progressive


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