Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The doctrine of a latitudinarian or of the latitudinarians; freedom or liberality of opinion in religion, philosophy, politics, etc.; laxity or indifference in regard to doctrines and forms.
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- noun A latitudinarian system or condition; freedom of opinion in matters pertaining to religious belief.
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- noun
Tolerance of other people's views, particularly inreligious context. - noun philosophy The
latitudinarian position, thatde re attitudes are merely a special case ofde dicto attitudes
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Examples
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It is pleasing further to remark that a kind of latitudinarianism was allowed by the Fathers themselves.
Theological Essays of the Late Benjamin Jowett: Seleted, Arranged, and Edited by Lewis Campbell 1817-1893 1906
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It is pleasing further to remark that a kind of latitudinarianism was allowed by the Fathers themselves.
The Epistles of St. Paul to the Thessalonians, Galatians and Romans: Essays and Dissertations 1817-1893 1894
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Shaftesbury's role in defining Sentimentality as "the affective spectacle of benign generosity" (211), as well as its contested religious origins in latitudinarianism and
Notes on 'Talking About Virtue: Paisiello's 'Nina,' Paër's 'Agnese,' and the Sentimental Ethos' 2005
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Shaftesbury's formulation of sentimentality as either a manifestation of latitudinarianism or deism, both vaguely secularized systems of advancing self-sufficient virtue as the means by which manners dominated and controlled behavior in the public realm.
Talking About Virtue: Paisiello's 'Nina,' Paër's 'Agnese,' and the Sentimental Ethos 2005
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"But, my dear sir," said the curate, in pious horror, "that is rank latitudinarianism!"
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The utmost latitudinarianism, as has been mentioned, was allowed in the matter of costume, but this rule was subject to one exception.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 87, March, 1875 Various
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But there is too much latitudinarianism in this nineteenth century.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No. 2, August, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various
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Yet the University, as a whole, stood slightly aloof from him, and before long in certain obscurantist circles cautious hints of latitudinarianism were murmured against him.
Fray Luis de León A Biographical Fragment James Fitzmaurice-Kelly
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It is for want of sufficiently investigating and allowing for this moral and political latitudinarianism of our enemies, that we are apt to be too precipitate in censuring the conduct of the war; and, in our estimation of what has been done, we pay too little regard to the principles by which we have been directed.
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It is for want of sufficiently investigating and allowing for this moral and political latitudinarianism of our enemies, that we are apt to be too precipitate in censuring the conduct of the war; and, in our estimation of what has been done, we pay too little regard to the principles by which we have been directed.
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December 4, 2009
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December 5, 2009
qms commented on the word latitudinarianism
The commune's nudist agrarianism
The neighbors call lewd barbarianism.
The counsel I give
Is live and let live
In tolerant latitudinarianism.
October 1, 2016