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

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

In a fresh publishing venture, Time Inc. is issuing armchair passports to this new U.S. breed of cosmopolite.

From Time Magazine Archive

Bishop Whitney, a young man, preached a cosmopolite sermon, quoting Milton and Emerson.

From Julia Ward Howe 1819-1910 by Elliott, Maud Howe