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Definition of Latitudinarian
1. Noun. A person who is broad-minded and tolerant (especially in standards of religious belief and conduct).
Generic synonyms: Liberal, Liberalist, Progressive
2. Adjective. Unwilling to accept authority or dogma (especially in religion).
Category relationships: Faith, Religion, Religious Belief
Similar to: Broad-minded
Derivative terms: Latitude, Latitude
Definition of Latitudinarian
1. a. Not restrained; not confined by precise limits.
2. n. One who is moderate in his notions, or not restrained by precise settled limits in opinion; one who indulges freedom in thinking.
Definition of Latitudinarian
1. Adjective. Tolerant, especially of other people's religious views. ¹
2. Noun. A person who is tolerant of others' religious views. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Latitudinarian
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Medical Definition of Latitudinarian
1. 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. Origin: Cf. F. Latitudinaire. 1. One who is moderate in his notions, or not restrained by precise settled limits in opinion; one who indulges freedom in thinking. 2. 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. One who departs in opinion from the strict principles of orthodoxy. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Latitudinarian
Literary usage of Latitudinarian
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Works of Tennyson by Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, Hallam Tennyson Tennyson (1908)
"... and some of its members, meeting under his hospitable roof, at a subsequent
period became the leaders of the latitudinarian school of divines. ..."
2. The Cambridge Modern History by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton, Ernest Alfred Benians, Sir Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero (1908)
"... not tied to any party views, a lover of peace detesting " the brawls grown
from religion," John Hales is a typical latitudinarian, gifted with acuteness ..."
3. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1904)
"His religion was the logical outcome of the latitudinarian views of his father.
... He was of too fine a cultivation, and of too cosmopolitan a type, ..."
4. History of the Life and Times of James Madison by William Cabell Rives (1868)
"... Power in Congress to Establish such an Institution — latitudinarian Arguments
of its Adversaries— Answered by Mr. Madison in an Impressive Speech, ..."
5. A Systematic Treatise, Historical, Etiological, and Practical, on the by Daniel Drake (1854)
"... that the exanthème or the maculae may follow the same latitudinarian rale,
and that the pulmonary complications may exist from the beginning or occur ..."
6. Money and Morals: A Book for the Times by John Lalor (1852)
"Comprehensiveness not latitudinarian. It does not involve, as to many it may
appear to do, a lax or latitudinarian principle, to admit that the spirit of ..."
7. ... Characters and Passages from Note-books by Samuel Butler (1908)
"A latitudinarian /"* IVES himself the more Scope, because he that has the \_f
largest Conscience is most like, in all Probability, to keep within Compass of ..."
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