latitudinarian

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

LATITUDINA'RIAN, adjective Not restrained; not confined by precise limits; free; thinking or acting at large; as latitudinarian opinions or doctrines. LATITUDINA'RIAN, noun 1. One who is moderate in his notions, or not restrained by precise settled limits in opinion; one who indulges freedom in thinking. 2. In theology, one who departs in opinion from the strict principles of orthodoxy; or one who indulges a latitude of thinking and interpretation; a moderate man.
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