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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Broad-minded; liberal; capable of more than one view of a subject.

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Examples

  • God Bless her by those awefully nice Chaps Mr Harper & Mr Rudd but even wide-minded Colonials et exColonials would be endorsing this SECOND BLAST OF THE TRUMPET against the MONSTROUS REGIMENT of WOMEN … if Canada & the USA was under the Government of the afore=mentioned Ladies

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  • How like him to say that, so generous, so wide-minded, taking the hopeful view of everything.

    Red Pottage 2004

  • Finnish men were wide-minded enough to see that as regards brains, employment, and politics, there should be no such question as sex.

    Through Finland in Carts

  • He was no longer patron of the arts, a wide-minded philanthropist, the man who devotes himself to the good of humanity.

    The Crimson Blind

  • Upon receiving this letter I reminded him of what I had said about American divorces, and gave him all the information that I had in my mind and could collect at the moment, especially mentioning Dakota and Nevada as two of the United States which had the most reasonable and wide-minded views of marriage and divorce.

    The Private Life of Henry Maitland Roberts, Morley, 1857-1942 1912

  • Since he knows the work of many churches, he has a basis for wide-minded thought.

    Rural Problems of Today 1911

  • Mr. Norton restored the true reading, which was “marked veracity,” though, on the other hand, he replaced the statement, omitted by Froude, that Taylor, who had died between the two editions, was “not a well-read or wide-minded man.”

    The Life of Froude Paul, Herbert 1905

  • The foundation of Wilson's criticism, unlike most of his contemporaries, was generous and wide-minded appreciation, yet he "hacked about him, distributing blows right and left, delivered sometimes for fun, though sometimes with the most extraordinary impulse of perversity, in the impetus of his career."

    Famous Reviews R. Brimley Johnson 1899

  • This was the first of a series of wide-minded Acts of Parliament which established the position of women as no longer the mere chattels of their male relatives.

    Great Testimony against scientific cruelty Stephen Coleridge 1895

  • Mr. Norton restored the true reading, which was "marked veracity," though, on the other hand, he replaced the statement, omitted by Froude, that Taylor, who had died between the two editions, was "not a well-read or wide-minded man."

    The Life of Froude 1894

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