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Pluralist

noun

A cleric who holds more than one benefice at a time.

A philosopher who believes that no single explanation can account for all the phenomena of nature.

Someone who believes that distinct ethnic or cultural or religious groups can exist together in society.

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"Pluralist" Quotes from Famous Books

... pluralist was popularly called "double A, B, C," to indicate that he had twice as many benefices as there were letters in the alphabet. He had, however, no objection to more, and was faithful to the dispensing power. The same course was pursued by Secretary Bave, Esquire Bordey, and other expectants ...

— The Rise of the Dutch Republic, 1555-1566 • John Lothrop Motley

... hand my father held out to him. There was some attempt to enter into conversation with him, but he begged to be excused, for he had to hurry back to Wattlesea to a funeral. Poor man! he was as great a pluralist as his vicar, for he kept a boys' school, partially day, partially boarding, and his eyes ...

— Chantry House • Charlotte M. Yonge

... baggage-master, and every other official in one. But who would grudge his tribute to the enterprise that opened this narrow vista through toward the Hyperboreans, and planted these once not crumbling sleepers and once not rickety rails, to save the passenger a portage? Here, at Bullgineville, the pluralist railroad-manager had his cabin and clearing, ox-engine house ...

— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 10, No. 61, November, 1862 • Various

Words linked to "Pluralist" : liberal, progressive, philosopher, pluralism, liberalist, divine, cleric, churchman, ecclesiastic