Latitudinarian (Noun)
Meaning
A person who is broad-minded and tolerant (especially in standards of religious belief and conduct).
Classification
Nouns denoting people.
Examples
- As a latitudinarian, the pastor accepted and supported various denominations and welcomed their representatives to his congregation.
- He believed the professor to be a latitudinarian in the realm of theological perspectives and credited him with changing the entire discussion in a short speech.
- Known as a latitudinarian leader in an often fractured country, her religious freedom efforts lifted national hopes of resolving endless violent uprisings and differences of conviction.
- Professor Almar spent a life addressing that seeming divergence that between societal retribution towards excess by maintaining principles characteristic of an evident and recognized philosophical and true-to-nature, religious latitudinarian.
- During one solemn night service, she offered a prayer celebrating the centuries-old principles which had grown famous within the heart and guiding virtues that an early, well-established and recognized latitudinarian had installed at the church and the cherished institution in a spirit known for its ability to foster unison of all perspectives within prayer.