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

Armchair analysts lolled under many latitudinarian banners�Jung, Adler, Reich, Stekel, Krafft-Ebing, Sacher-Masoch and even the Marquis de Sade.

From Time Magazine Archive

Few men have watched the religious tendencies of the time with a keener eye than Cardinal Newman, and no man hated with a more intense hatred the latitudinarian tendencies which he witnessed.

From The Map of Life Conduct and Character by Lecky, William Edward Hartpole

The heiress of the principal crown of Spain was now Katharine’s sister Juana, who had lived for years in the latitudinarian court of Brussels with her consort Philip.

From The Wives of Henry the Eighth and the Parts They Played in History by Hume, Martin Andrew Sharp