tolerationist

Examples

• All

• Robert Cotton, a close friend of the great lawyer and antiquarian John Selden, addressed his Erastianism primarily toward solving England's Roman Catholic problem. Arguing from the tolerationist perspective, he saw no advantages whatsoever in the policies of persecution being used.

  Academic text (1990)

• Murton's work, in turn, provided the structure for Roger Williams's famous tolerationist book The Bloody Tenent (1644), which formed a significant part of the background for the petition of 1657 from Flushing on Long Island.

  Academic text (2010)

• Nonetheless, the way Rawls situates his work in the tradition of tolerationist thinking spawned by the sixteenth- and seventeenth-century wars of religion marks out even Political Liberalism as part of the project.

  Academic text (1998)

• The tolerationist views of the philosopher promoted peaceful coexistence among diverse cultures.

• As a tolerationist, she believed that different religious beliefs should be respected and accepted.

Synonyms

P

pluralist

vstolerationist

2 6.5

A person who believes different groups can live together in one society

favors accepting beliefs and practices rather than focusing on group coexistence

M

multiculturalist

vstolerationist

2 6.1

A person who supports equal respect for different cultures

favors accepting beliefs and practices across religions and social groups

L

latitudinarian

vstolerationist

9.9

Being open to different religious opinions and practices

favors acceptance of different religious or social beliefs and practices

Antonyms

I

intolerant

64 4.6

Not willing to accept people who have different opinions or beliefs

B

bigoted

• Offensive

44 7.8

Showing strong, unfair dislike of people with different beliefs or backgrounds

How Tolerant

accepting

3.6

open-minded

80 3.7

tolerationist

7.5

intolerant

64 4.6

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology