a. [ Cf. F. latitudinaire. ] 1. Not restrained; not confined by precise limits. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Indifferent to a strict application of any standard of belief or opinion; hence, deviating more or less widely from such standard; lax in doctrine; as, latitudinarian divines; latitudinarian theology. [ 1913 Webster ]

Latitudinarian sentiments upon religious subjects. Allibone. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Lax in moral or religious principles. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who is moderate in his notions, or not restrained by precise settled limits in opinion; one who indulges freedom in thinking. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Eng. Eccl. Hist.) A member of the Church of England, in the time of Charles II., who adopted more liberal notions in respect to the authority, government, and doctrines of the church than generally prevailed. [ 1913 Webster ]

They were called “men of latitude;” and upon this, men of narrow thoughts fastened upon them the name of latitudinarians. Bp. Burnet. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Theol.) One who departs in opinion from the strict principles of orthodoxy. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A latitudinarian system or condition; freedom of opinion in matters pertaining to religious belief. [ 1913 Webster ]

Fierce sectarianism bred fierce latitudinarianism. De Quincey. [ 1913 Webster ]

He [ Ammonius Saccas ] plunged into the wildest latitudinarianism of opinion. J. S. Harford. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One addicted to uttering platitudes, or stale and insipid truisms. “A political platitudinarian.” G. Eliot. [ 1913 Webster ]