cosmopolite
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The cosmopolite respects and appreciates difference, while acknowledging that “no local loyalty can ever justify forgetting that each human being has responsibilities to every other.”
From Slate • Sep. 14, 2018
In an era when university art departments, like museums, tended to be divided into fiefs, each controlled by a specialist, Mr. Rosand, a genuine cosmopolite, walked a broad terrain.
From New York Times • Aug. 28, 2014
But Paul, a Roman citizen and a cosmopolite familiar with Greek learning, reinterpreted Jesus, on the authority of his own private revelations from God, as the Saviour of all mankind.
From Time Magazine Archive
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The paper also took a dim view of Literary Lights T. S. Eliot, Stephen Spender and Edith and Osbert Sitwell as servants of "American cosmopolite expansionism."
From Time Magazine Archive
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Where did this cosmopolite, who really has no English roots, learn the system?
From McClure's Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 2, July, 1893 by Various