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pluralist /ˈplʊər(ə)lɪst /noun1An advocate of a system in which two or more states, groups, principles, sources of authority, etc., coexist: religious pluralists...- Pluralists began to argue that links between financial centres around the world were now closer than cities within the state had been in the past.
- At a time when the Church was desperate to believe that Earth was the centre of the universe, pluralist de Fontanelle delighted in a contrary concept.
- Pluralists perceive no exploitative superstructure.
1.1An advocate of devolution and autonomy for individual bodies in preference to monolithic state control: although attractive to pluralists, this vision of local democracy had its limitations...- The putative pluralists very rapidly drew back and refocused their attention on the state.
- The state was characterized as a 'metaphysical spook' by the pluralists.
- A previous generation of pluralists in both Britain and the United States had endeavoured to dispense with the idea of the state when analysing politics.
1.2 Philosophy An advocate of a system of thought that recognizes more than one ultimate principle: there is evidence that some of the early Greek philosophers were philosophical pluralists...- I am a pluralist—I do not think that pure quantitative analysis will work well.
- He is a pluralist—he defies chronological time, for he has lived several hundred years.
- Enough forces conspire to keep the architect 'on message', even when they seek to be pluralists.
2A member of the clergy who holds more than one ecclesiastical office at a time: today many Anglican clergy in rural areas are technically pluralists...- He was living comfortably as a clerical pluralist when Cromwell commissioned him to be one of the visitors to the monasteries in the second half of 1535.
- His aristocratic and clerical connections ensured his rapid preferment, but he was only a minor pluralist.
- Although he was canon and prebendary of Llandaff from 1295, and from 1299 archdeacon of Shropshire, he was only a moderate pluralist.
adjective1Relating to or advocating a system in which two or more states, groups, principles, sources of authority, etc., coexist: a tolerant, pluralist society...- It is consistent with his criticism of US employers by not being supportive of partnership with unions or tolerant of pluralist employee interests.
- The art-historical progression that leads from Cézanne to Judd does not adequately address or contextualize the pluralist art of today.
- It embarked upon a cultural pluralist rapprochement with Protestants.
1.1Relating to or advocating devolution and autonomy for individual bodies in preference to monolithic state control: we believe in a pluralist democracy...- Pluralist politics are rarely about seeking to 'see' the whole system.
- The former president has driven this pluralist mission.
- We are not suggesting that pluralist political methods should be marginalized or eliminated.
1.2 Philosophy Relating to a system of thought that recognizes more than one ultimate principle: pluralist feminist scientists...- The ethical implications of his pluralist philosophy would also have appealed to Moore.
- The analytical method of sectors thus starts with disaggregation, but from our theoretically pluralist perspective must end with reassembly.
- For Zoline, we are all children of calamity and woe if we live "without a myth sufficiently pluralist to save us."
2(Of a member of the clergy) holding more than one ecclesiastical office at a time: pluralist clergy in the pre-Reformation parish system...- He was an apposite successor to Brinton in a see too modest to attract the interest of ambitious (and usually heavily pluralist) ecclesiastics.
- He profited significantly as something of a pluralist official at this time.
- Only three of the pluralist clergy in 1533 held a parish in which no other clerk was assessed for tax.
Rhymes muralist, ruralist |