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

I know that many of my friends on both sides looked upon me as a latitudinarian, but my conviction has always been that we could not be broad enough.

From My Autobiography A Fragment by Müller, F. Max (Friedrich Max)

If, however, he could wonder at the latitudinarian laxity of my taste, there was at least one special department in which I could marvel quite as much at the incomprehensible breadth of his.

From My Schools and Schoolmasters or The Story of my Education. by Miller, Hugh