lat|i|tu|di|nar|i|an

lat|i|tu|di|nar|i|an «_LAT uh _TOO duh NAIR ee uhn, -_TYOO-», adjective, noun.

–adj.

allowing others their own beliefs; not insisting on strict adherence to established principles, especially in religious views: »

His opinions respecting ecclesiastical polity and modes of worship were latitudinarian (Macaulay).

SYNONYM(S): broad, liberal, tolerant.

–n.

a person who holds liberal views and cares little about creeds, doctrines, and forms, especially in religion: »

At the other end are what Yale Historian John Morton Blum calls the “latitudinarians”: those who, like Lincoln and Wilson, gave wide scope to the Constitution's vague charter (Time).

Lat|i|tu|di|nar|i|an «_LAT uh _TOO duh NAIR ee uhn, -_TYOO-», noun.

(in the Church of England) one of a school of Episcopal divines who, in the 1600's, strove to unite the dissenters with the Episcopal church by insisting on those doctrines which were held in common by both. They maintained the wisdom of the episcopal form of government and ritual, but denied their divine origin and authority. »

Dr. Wilkins, my friend, the Bishop of Chester, is a mighty rising man, as being a Latitudinarian (Samuel Pepys).