Unwilling to accept authority or dogma (especially in religion)
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Examples for "free-thinking "
1 Reared in the free-thinking atmosphere of the court of Catherine II.
2 I always fancy that it is the first step toward free-thinking .
3 She had long noticed-withregret-thegrowing tendency towards free-thinking among artisans.
4 The free-thinking Greeks, however, put on such a supernatural pedigree its proper value.
5 A retort of Sainte-Betive's shows the sincerity of his free-thinking opinions.
1 Neither did she hold the lighter and equally dangerous creed of the latitudinarian .
2 Good sound crushing, rending, comfortable nails of doctrine-noneof your airy latitudinarian tin-tacks.
3 The latitudinarian party in the Church, a rapidly growing body, leaned perceptibly the same way.
4 We live in decent times; frigid, latitudinarian , alarmed, decorous.
5 I think you are latitudinarian in your tendencies.
1 Mr. Warner was the most undogmatic of idealists, the most winning of teachers.
2 He wished to reduce Christianity to a moral, humanitarian, undogmatic philosophy of life.
3 His Christianity, though undogmatic , was real and pervasive, and his love for nature was a devotion.
4 These three Churches unite in this simple, practical, undogmatic statement (the sixth of the thirty-nine articles):
5 The book is sober and undogmatic , but highly persuasive, even if some of its conclusions seem already familiar.
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