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单词 pluralist
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pluralist

/ˈplʊər(ə)lɪst /
noun
1An 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.
adjective
1Relating 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.

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