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accommodationist

accommodationist noun: someone who tries to accommodate an opposition, usually a political one.

Noun

accommodationist (plural accommodationists)

  1. Someone who tries to accommodate an opposition, usually a political one.
    1. 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).

Forms of accommodationist

pluralaccommodationists
alternative formaccommodationalist

Origin of accommodationist

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

Questions about accommodationist

What does accommodationist mean?
Accommodationist means someone who tries to accommodate an opposition, usually a political one.
What part of speech is accommodationist?
Accommodationist is a noun.
What is the plural of accommodationist?
The plural of accommodationist is accommodationists.

Words near accommodationist in the dictionary

  1. accommodation papers
  2. accommodation train
  3. accommodation trains
  4. accommodational
  5. accommodationism
  6. accommodationist
  7. accommodationists
  8. accommodations
  9. accommodative
  10. accommodatively
  11. accommodativeness

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