universalist
Americannoun
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a person characterized by universalism, as in knowledge, interests, or activities.
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(initial capital letter) a member of a liberal religious denomination advocating Universalism.
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That’s the universalist worldview that built public education in the first place, and it’s the one we must recover to lead in the future.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2025
Lewis told Salon that, as a self-described universalist who believes that all human beings will be restored to a right relationship with God, Christian exhortation need not come at the expense of pluralism.
From Salon ● Oct. 18, 2024
The creeping alien force constantly wrapping its tentacles around the dialogue in “Wrong Way” is the inoffensively postconservative, universalist rhetoric of contemporary business development.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 12, 2023
“Given the many religious tensions across the world, the real challenges of interfaith dialogue, and the self-selected crowd at Toronto, the universalist rhetoric could sound a little hollow. “
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 14, 2023
And these three are universalist, if I may so say, in a very unequal degree.
From Outlines of a Philosophy of Religion based on Psychology and History by Auguste Sabatier
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