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  • n  a person who is broad-minded and tolerant (especially in standards of religious belief and conduct)
  • s  unwilling to accept authority or dogma (especially in religion)

  • They are progressive without becoming latitudinarian.
  • But more than broad, altogether too latitudinarian for most Episcopal tastes, is Bishop Paul Jones, "the bishop without a diocese," called last fortnight to Southern Ohio to .
  • Rabbi Kornfeld, President Harding's friend and onetime (1921) Minister to Persia, proved himself a sympathetic latitudinarian on Yom Kippur, most solemn of Jewish days.

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