NOUN
- a person who is broad-minded and tolerant (especially in standards of religious belief and conduct)
ADJECTIVE
- unwilling to accept authority or dogma (especially in religion)
How To Use latitudinarian In A Sentence
- Like their English counterparts, American latitudinarian Anglicans, such as Alexander Garden, also shaped Enlightened Dissent.
- Given my general position on constitutional interpretation, I certainly don't want to argue, as a theoretical matter, that the Impeachment Clause might not be open to the latitudinarian interpretations suggested by some of the contributors to this thread. Balkinization
- Lucy the fanaticism of some of her own communion, while she intimated, rather than expressed, horror at the latitudinarian principles which she had been taught to think connected with the prelatical form of church government. The Bride of Lammermoor
- The Church of England's latitudinarian moderation could satisfy the mind but it could not reach the heart. p. Supremacy and Survival
- Lucy the fanaticism of some of her own communion, while she intimated, rather than expressed, horror at the latitudinarian principles which she had been taught to think connected with the prelatical form of church government. The Bride of Lammermoor
- The latitudinarianism of the incumbent rabbi was attuned to the religious outlook of the congregation's membership, for whom Orthodoxy was a matter of preference, not of practice.
- But the swelling tide of latitudinarian theology and sentiment made it seem innocuous enough to most.
- Actually, some figures of the period, such as Hans Denck and Sebastian Franck, did; but latitudinarianism was itself regarded as a heresy.
- He wants to know more about liberal latitudinarianism in theology.
- 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