A “latitudinarian” (lat-uh-too-din-AIR-ee-un) – from the Latin for “wide” – is someone who is broadminded and tolerant, especially in religious matters.
Example (as used by Caleb Crain in American Sympathy): “[Sir Thomas] More was nothing like his supposed example, the gently latitudinarian Cicero, for instance: Cicero’s philosophical and religious dialogues (as opposed to his legal and political speeches, of course) often read as if he delighted in being contradicted, while More’s are spittingly conclusive.”
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