latitudinarianism
Americannoun
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The Bishops of the Church of England attempted to preserve this latitudinarianism and at the same time to create some authority for parochial idiosyncracies.
From Time Magazine Archive
This tolerant spirit, however, in some minds, manifests a strong tendency to latitudinarianism.
From Gleanings by the Way by Clark, John A.
Ward, Jowett, and others, by his preaching in the pulpits of the Church of Scotland and in other ways, and his latitudinarianism made him equally obnoxious to many others.
From A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by Cousin, John W. (John William)
In the first place, there is no mistaking a certain latitudinarianism in several prominent theologians of the rationalistic tendency.
From History of Dogma, Volume 1 (of 7) by Buchanan, Neil
That its cause was not religious is clear, for there was little religious persecution, and the penal code in Ireland was at its worst in the heyday of English latitudinarianism.
From The New Irish Constitution by Morgan, J. H.
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