pluralist

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

noun a cleric who holds more than one benefice at a time
noun a philosopher who believes that no single explanation can account for all the phenomena of nature
noun someone who believes that distinct ethnic or cultural or religious groups can exist together in society

From plural + -ist.

And passing from these less legitimate affairs of the heart--in which rumour accredited Richard with being very much of a pluralist--her mind traveled back to the young man's projected marriage with Lady Constance Decies, sometime Lady Constance Quayle. — The History of Sir Richard Calmady: A Romance, Lucas Malet
The credulity of one writer, or the partiality of another, finds as powerful a touchstone and as wholesome a chastisement in the healthy scepticism of a temperate class of antagonists, as the dreams of conservatism, or the impostures of pluralist sinecures in the Church. — The Iliad, Homer
To this man the world seems more rational with possibilities in it,--to that man more rational with possibilities excluded; and talk as we will about having to yield to {153} evidence, what makes us monists or pluralists, determinists or indeterminists, is at bottom always some sentiment like this. — The Will to Believe, and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy, William James

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