accommodationist

English

Alternative forms

• accommodationalist

Etymology

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

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).

Related terms

• accommodationism

 

Translations

someone who accommodates opposition and compromises their own stance

• Portuguese: acomodacionista m or f

See also

• appeaser, compromiser (these imply corruption of the person's own values, which accommodationism construes as different)
• coexister
• cultural Christian (sometimes hyponymous)