tolerantist

English

Etymology

From tolerant +‎ -ist.

Noun

tolerantist (plural tolerantists)

An advocate of religious tolerantism.
- 1895, James Andrew Corcoran, Patrick John Ryan, Edmond Francis Prendergast, The American Catholic Quarterly Review - Volume 20, page 268:
  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 fit to adopt, with that Almighty God must be satisfied. And thus the modern tolerantist makes broad his phylacteries and enlarges the borders of his garments and gives thanks that he is not wedded to a fixed creed, a believer in dogma, an infallibilitst, priest-ridden, narrow-minded, even as is the Catholic.
- 1993, Colin Haydon, Anti-Catholicism in Eighteenth-century England, C. 1714-80, →ISBN:
  They were hardly likely to accept the ideas derived in part from non-Christian philosophes without, to say the least, some reservations, and saw in some tolerantist notions views which were transitory and fleetingly fashionable, and which could not be allowed to undermine fundamental Protestant truths.
- 2009, William C. White, Steps, Faith to Reason, →ISBN, page 186:
  Several months later, July 1562, the Bordeaux Parlement struck at the “tolerantists” by requiring that each member of Parlement make a formal profession of the Catholic faith.”
- 2016, Gary M. Hamburg, Russia's Path toward Enlightenment, →ISBN:
  However, like many other tolerantist Christians of the early eighteenth century, Peter did not extend his toleration to the Jesuits or Jews.
One who advocates racial or cultural toleration.
- 2001, Pierre-André Taguieff, The Force of Prejudice: On Racism and Its Doubles, →ISBN, page 20:
  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 anthropemy), the clean racialization of separate development (tolerantist anthropoemia) — to use systematically the metaphorical distinction between anthropophagia and anthropemy, recently introduced by Claude Lévi-Strauss.
- 2008 April, Yvon Pesqueux, “European Literature and the Ethics of Leadership: Cyrano de Bergerac”, in International Workshop on European Literature and the Ethics of Leadership:
  It ends in a conception, which legitimizes the fact that every group possesses its culture, every culture its moral values, its traditions and its rules of behavior and the "tolerantist‟ reception to the culture of the Others.
- 2015, Martti Lehto, Pekka Neittaanmäki, Cyber Security: Analytics, Technology and Automation, →ISBN, page 55:
  Soon, as the 'tolerantists' wish, Finland will turn to be backward country, populated by all the others but the original Finns.