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pluralist

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plu·ral·ist  (plr-lst)
n.
1. An adherent of social or philosophical pluralism.
2. Ecclesiastical A person who holds two or more offices, especially two or more benefices, at the same time.
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Noun1.pluralist - a cleric who holds more than one benefice at a time
churchman, cleric, ecclesiastic, divine - a clergyman or other person in religious orders
2.pluralist - a philosopher who believes that no single explanation can account for all the phenomena of nature
philosopher - a specialist in philosophy
3.pluralist - someone who believes that distinct ethnic or cultural or religious groups can exist together in society
liberal, liberalist, progressive - a person who favors a political philosophy of progress and reform and the protection of civil liberties
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That perhaps it was a little indecent that the principal registrar of all, whose duty it was to find the public, constantly resorting to this place, all needful accommodation, should be an enormous sinecurist in virtue of that post (and might be, besides, a clergyman, a pluralist, the holder of a staff in a cathedral, and what not), - while the public was put to the inconvenience of which we had a specimen every afternoon when the office was busy, and which we knew to be quite monstrous.
David Copperfield by Dickens, Charles View in context
Adolphus Irwine, Rector of Broxton, Vicar of Hayslope, and Vicar of Blythe, a pluralist at whom the severest Church reformer would have found it difficult to look sour.
Adam Bede by Eliot, George View in context
A pen-stroke might demolish his civilian epaulets, his place at court, his sinecure, his two offices and their advantages; in all, six salaries retained under fire of the law against pluralists.
Bureaucracy by de Balzac, Honore View in context
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