pluralist

2 definitions found

pluralist - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Pluralist \Plu"ral*ist\, n. (Eccl.)
     A clerk or clergyman who holds more than one ecclesiastical
     benefice. [Eng.]
     [1913 Webster]
  
           Of the parochial clergy, a large proportion were
           pluralists.                              --Macaulay.
     [1913 Webster]

pluralist - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  pluralist
      n 1: a cleric who holds more than one benefice at a time
      2: a philosopher who believes that no single explanation can
         account for all the phenomena of nature
      3: someone who believes that distinct ethnic or cultural or
         religious groups can exist together in society