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pluralist

Other forms: pluralists

Definitions of pluralist
  1. noun
    someone who believes that distinct ethnic or cultural or religious groups can exist together in society
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    type of:
    liberal, liberalist, progressive
    a person who favors a political philosophy of progress and reform and the protection of civil liberties
  2. noun
    a cleric who holds more than one benefice at a time
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    type of:
    churchman, cleric, divine, ecclesiastic
    a clergyman or other person in religious orders
  3. noun
    a philosopher who believes that no single explanation can account for all the phenomena of nature
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    type of:
    philosopher
    a specialist in philosophy
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