accommodationist
English
Alternative forms
- accommodationalist
Etymology
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English accommodation
English accommodationist
By surface analysis, accommodation + ist, or, by surface analysis, accommodation(ism) + -ist.
Noun
accommodationist (plural accommodationists)
- Someone who tries to accommodate an opposition, usually a political one.
- Someone who argues that freedom of religion does not necessarily force a government to demonstrably prove nonestablishment (for example, an argument that state-funded schools don't have to ban the presence of religious things (e.g., Bibles, Torahs, Qur'ans, voluntary prayers) to prove governmental neutrality about religion and nonreligion).
Related terms
Translations
someone who accommodates opposition and compromises their own stance
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See also
- appeaser, compromiser (these imply corruption of the person's own values, which accommodationism construes as different)
- coexister
- cultural Christian (sometimes hyponymous)