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

He can play by turns the extravagant cosmopolite who rides horses with President Reagan, and the devout Muslim who is officially known as Commander of the Faithful.

From Time Magazine Archive

He is therefore a cosmopolite who believes that "it is extremely hard"�and extremely important�"for one man to understand the nationalism of another."

From Time Magazine Archive

Where did this cosmopolite, who really has no English roots, learn the system?

From McClure's Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 2, July, 1893 by Various