Tolerantist

noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    An advocate of religious tolerantism.

    "They demand leave for a man to form his views in religion as he forms them in painting or in poetry or in architecture; to form them, that is,without let or hindrance from man or God according to the individual's taste and fancy and character and inclination; and whatever view the individual thinks fit to adopt, with that Almighty God must be satisfied. And thus the modern tolerantist makes broad his phylacteries and enlarges the borders of his garments and gives thanks that he is not wedded to a fixed creed, a believer in dogma, an infallibilitst, priest-ridden, narrow-minded, even as is the Catholic."

  2. 2
    One who advocates racial or cultural toleration.

    "Hence the concept of heterophobia lumps together various modes of the "racizing" treatment of groups of others: the gentle racialization of encompassing others in and through persuasive dialogue (dialogical anthropology), the terrorist racialization of the destruction of others (genocidal anthropemy), the clean racialization of separate development (tolerantist anthropoemia) — to use systematically the metaphorical distinction between anthropophagia and anthropemy, recently introduced by Claude Lévi-Strauss."

Example

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"They demand leave for a man to form his views in religion as he forms them in painting or in poetry or in architecture; to form them, that is,without let or hindrance from man or God according to the individual's taste and fancy and character and inclination; and whatever view the individual thinks fit to adopt, with that Almighty God must be satisfied. And thus the modern tolerantist makes broad his phylacteries and enlarges the borders of his garments and gives thanks that he is not wedded to a fixed creed, a believer in dogma, an infallibilitst, priest-ridden, narrow-minded, even as is the Catholic."

Etymology

From tolerant + -ist.

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