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Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   Someone who tries to accommodate an opposition, usually a political one.
2. 2
   Someone who tries to accommodate an opposition, usually a political one.; Someone who argues that freedom of religion does not necessarily force a government to demonstrably prove nonestablishment (for example, an argument that state-funded schools don't have to ban the presence of religious things (e.g., Bibles, Torahs, Qur'ans, voluntary prayers) to prove governmental neutrality about religion and nonreligion).

Etymology

By surface analysis, accommodation + ist, or, by surface analysis, accommodation(ism) + -ist.

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