latitudinarian
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Was James Madison correct that it should dispose us against a latitudinarian interpretation of Congress’s powers?
From Washington Post ● Mar. 17, 2017
There are a fair number of undramatised biographical passages, which make for bumpy reading, even if one takes a latitudinarian position about the role of information in novelistic prose.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 8, 2012
To the time of Joseph II. belongs the liberal, latitudinarian supernaturalist Jahn of Vienna, whose “Introduction to the Old Testament,” and “Biblical Antiquities” did much to raise the standard of biblical learning.
From Church History, Vol. 3 of 3 by J. H. Kurtz
The latitudinarian prelates, who had not been ashamed to correspond with Doddridge and to shake hands with Whiston, would be succeeded by divines of the temper of South and Atterbury.
From Critical and Historical Essays, Volume III (of 3) by Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay
According to the most latitudinarian notions, this was the extent of the remedy in the hands of Congress.
From Discussion on American Slavery by Rev. Robert J. Breckinridge
