accommodationist
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English
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Etymology
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).
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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)