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

The trimming character of the latitudinarian, and the violent forwardness of the partisan, would appear to render such a supposition not unreasonable.

From The Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels by Burgon, John William

He, therefore, repudiated Calhoun's latitudinarian view that Congress was referred to its own discretion merely in the appropriation of money for the advancement of the general welfare.

From The Middle Period 1817-1858 by Burgess, John William