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

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

A man may hold "latitudinarian theories in regard to marriage and divorce" without "throwing scorn upon the marriage relation," or having the slightest sympathy with free-love.

From History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III by Stanton, Elizabeth Cady