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noun

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Recent Examples of latitudinarian
Adjective
Yet if a Republican is accused of moral impropriety or corruption, their own response is considerably more latitudinarian. Damon Linker, The Week, 6 Aug. 2021 This is a promise to gut interior enforcement that, coupled with the latitudinarian attitude at the border, would do much to render our immigration laws pointless. Nr Editors, National Review, 11 July 2019 Meanwhile, to the east, Hungary has gone straight to the reactionary nationalist right with barely a latitudinarian moment. The Economist, 4 July 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for latitudinarian
Adjective
  • Progressive socialist guerrillas, undogmatic and good-looking, too!
    Alma Guillermoprieto, The New Yorker, 10 Mar. 2022
  • Anderson expresses a fan’s zeal and a collector’s greed for both canonical works and weird odds and ends, a love for old modernisms that is undogmatic and unsentimental.
    Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct. 2021
Noun
  • The bromide has it that a liberal is a person who won’t take his own side in an argument.
    Becca Rothfeld, New Yorker, 30 Mar. 2026
  • Her efforts to come to terms with polyamory are couched as a political project—part of being an open-minded liberal—as much as a romantic one.
    Tyler Austin Harper, The Atlantic, 18 Mar. 2026

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“Latitudinarian.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/latitudinarian. Accessed 8 Apr. 2026.

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