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tolerantists

tolerantists is the plural of tolerantist.

Meaning of tolerantist

Noun

tolerantist (plural tolerantists)

  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...1895, James Andrew Corcoran, Patrick John Ryan, Edmond Francis Prendergast, The American Catholic Quarterly Review - Volume 20, page 268
  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...2001, Pierre-André Taguieff, The Force of Prejudice: On Racism and Its Doubles, →ISBN, page 20

Questions about tolerantists

What is tolerantists the plural of?
Tolerantists is the plural of tolerantist.

Words near tolerantists in the dictionary

  1. tolerancing
  2. tolerancy
  3. tolerant
  4. tolerantism
  5. tolerantist
  6. tolerantists
  7. tolerantly
  8. tolerants
  9. toleratable
  10. tolerate
  11. tolerated

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