Pluralist

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Pluralist \Plu"ral*ist\, n. (Eccl.)
     A clerk or clergyman who holds more than one ecclesiastical
     benefice. [Eng.]
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           Of the parochial clergy, a large proportion were


           pluralists.                              --Macaulay.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  pluralist
       n 1: a philosopher who believes that no single explanation can
            account for all the phenomena of nature
       2: someone who believes that distinct ethnic or cultural or
          religious groups can exist together in society