latitudinarian

• Her tolerance of wrong-doing would have seemed to many quite latitudinarian, and impressed them as if she had lost all just horror of what was morally wrong in transgression; but it seemed her fixed habit to see faults only as diseases and immaturities, and to expect them to fall away with time. —  Lady Byron Vindicated
• We should bear in mind that we may impose upon the people of this country, by this kind of latitudinarian and most dangerous legislation, a burden that is too heavy to be borne, and against which the day may come when the people, as one man, will feel themselves called upon to protest in such a manner as forever to overthrow that kind of legislation, and condemn to merited reproach those who favor it On a subsequent day of the discussion, Mr. Marshall, of Illinois, spoke against the bill. —  History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States
• But the difficulty and danger arose from the fact that two conflicting and irreconcilable elements tried to unite in it with a sort of compromise, the one, latitudinarian, un-Lutheran, unwilling or unable to prize the treasures of the Mother Church of the Reformation, and overanxious to exchange them for Puritan legalism and Methodistic 'new measures'; the other, conservative, holding on to the inheritance of the fathers, and hoping almost against hope to bring the Church back to their good foundation. —  American Lutheranism Volume 2: The United Lutheran Church (General Synod, General Council, United Synod in the South)
• Such sentiments would be deemed latitudinarian, even in our time; and would not be advanced, without some precaution, in a public assembly Cavendish, p. 72 These exactions were quite arbitrary, and had risen to a great height. —  The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part C. From Henry VII. to Mary
• It was latitudinarian, and yet it was limited. —  The Victorian Age in Literature

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