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Latitudinarian
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What's The Definition Of Latitudinarian?
[n] a person who is broad-minded and tolerant (especially in standards of religious belief and conduct)
[adj] unwilling to accept authority or dogma (especially in religion) Synonyms | Synonyms for Latitudinarian: broad-minded | free-thinking | undogmatic | undogmatical Related Terms | Find terms related to Latitudinarian: big person | broad-gauge person | broad-minded | ecumenicist | esprit fort | free lance | free spirit | free trader | freethinker | freethinking | humanist | independent | individualist | isolationist | liberal | liberalist | liberalistic | libertarian | libertine | mugwump | neutral | nonpartisan | open-minded | rugged individualist | secular humanist | third force | third world | tolerant | unbigoted See Also | liberal | progressive Latitudinarian In Webster's Dictionary \Lat`i*tu`di*na"ri*an\, a. [Cf. F.
latitudinaire.]
1. Not restrained; not confined by precise limits.
2. Indifferent to a strict application of any standard of
belief or opinion; hence, deviating more or less widely
from such standard; lax in doctrine; as, latitudinarian
divines; latitudinarian theology.
Latitudinarian sentiments upon religious subjects.
--Allibone.
3. Lax in moral or religious principles.
\Lat`i*tu`di*na"ri*an\, n. 1. One who is moderate in his notions, or not restrained by precise settled limits in opinion; one who indulges freedom in thinking. 2. (Eng. Eccl. Hist.) A member of the Church of England, in the time of Charles II., who adopted more liberal notions in respect to the authority, government, and doctrines of the church than generally prevailed. They were called ``men of latitude;'' and upon this, men of narrow thoughts fastened upon them the name of latitudinarians. --Bp. Burnet. 3. (Theol.) One who departs in opinion from the strict principles of orthodoxy. |
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