pluralist
/ˈplʊrəlɪst/
adjective
- Relating to or supporting a system in which many different groups, beliefs, or cultures coexist.
- Her pluralist views helped bring together people from different backgrounds.
- A pluralist democracy allows multiple political parties to compete for power.
- The school adopted a pluralist approach to teaching world religions.
noun
- A person who believes that many different groups, beliefs, or cultures should coexist in a society.
- The professor is a well-known pluralist who supports multicultural education.
- As a pluralist, she argued that the city should celebrate all its ethnic festivals.
- Being a pluralist means respecting opinions that differ from your own.
- A person who holds more than one office or position at the same time, especially in the church.
- The bishop was a pluralist, serving as both a parish priest and a university chaplain.
- The new law limited how many roles a pluralist could hold in the diocese.
- In medieval times, a pluralist could collect income from several parishes.
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