[f. prec. + -ISM.] Latitudinarian doctrine, opinions, principles or practice; the professions or practice of a latitudinarian or the latitudinarians.
1676. R. Grove, Vind. Conforming Clergy (1680), 25. Let us see what he understands by this fearful Bugbear of Latitudinarianism.
1771. Wesley, Wks. (1872). V. 502. A catholic spirit is not speculative latitudinarianism.
1844. Disraeli, Coningsby, III. ii. There must be substituted for this latitudinarianism something sound and deep.
a. 1859. Macaulay, Biog. (1867), 12. The majority of King William’s bishops were inclined to latitudinarianism.
1867. Froude, Short Stud. (ed. 2), 57. Latitudinarianism loosens the elementary principles of theology.
