Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who is indifferent or neutral in any cause; specifically, one who adopts the attitude of religious indifferentism.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One governed by indifferentism.
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- noun An
advocate ofindifferentism .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Jane Smiley, the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, said: I'm an indifferentist, I don't really feel myself haunted or tormented by these kinds of questions.
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The Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Jane Smiley told me she had once called herself an agnostic but had switched to calling herself an "indifferentist."
Michael Krasny: Just Say 'I Don't Know' Michael Krasny 2010
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Jane Smiley, the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, said: I'm an indifferentist, I don't really feel myself haunted or tormented by these kinds of questions.
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Jane Smiley, the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, said: I'm an indifferentist, I don't really feel myself haunted or tormented by these kinds of questions.
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The Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Jane Smiley told me she had once called herself an agnostic but had switched to calling herself an "indifferentist."
Michael Krasny: Just Say 'I Don't Know' Michael Krasny 2010
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Jane Smiley, the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, said: I'm an indifferentist, I don't really feel myself haunted or tormented by these kinds of questions.
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POLITICIAN: An indifferentist in matters of religion.
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Dulles, therefore, understandably questions the idea, first formulated in such terms by Pius XII, of "implicit faith," which is "vague" and thus too readily lends itself to a relativist or indifferentist interpretation.
Who can be saved: reconceiving the question Mike L 2008
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POLITICIAN: An indifferentist in matters of religion.
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The anti-label sentiment you express is one I've often heard, and it most often strikes me as ultimately relativist or indifferentist.
Morning Conversation Belinda 2007
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