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adjective

Definition of latitudinariannext
as in undogmatic

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noun

as in liberal

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Recent Examples of latitudinarian
Adjective
Yet if a Republican is accused of moral impropriety or corruption, their own response is considerably more latitudinarian. — Damon Linker, The Week, 6 Aug. 2021 This is a promise to gut interior enforcement that, coupled with the latitudinarian attitude at the border, would do much to render our immigration laws pointless. — Nr Editors, National Review, 11 July 2019 Meanwhile, to the east, Hungary has gone straight to the reactionary nationalist right with barely a latitudinarian moment. — The Economist, 4 July 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for latitudinarian
  1. undogmatic
  2. liberal
Adjective
  • Progressive socialist guerrillas, undogmatic and good-looking, too!
    — Alma Guillermoprieto, The New Yorker, 10 Mar. 2022
  • Anderson expresses a fan’s zeal and a collector’s greed for both canonical works and weird odds and ends, a love for old modernisms that is undogmatic and unsentimental.
    — Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct. 2021
Definition of undogmatic
Noun
  • Collins has fired back by portraying Ossoff as an out-of-touch liberal who doesn't understand the struggles of working Georgians.
    — AJC.com, AJC.com, 9 Oct. 2026
  • There’s nary a chalk-wielding liberal in sight, and the attorney general might pop by for Sunday dinner.
    — Aidan McLaughlin, Vanity Fair, 8 Oct. 2026
Definition of liberal

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