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platitudinarian, n. and a.|ˌplætɪtjuːdɪˈnɛərɪən|
[f. as prec., after latitudinarian.]
A. n. One who utters or deals in platitudes.
1855Tait's Mag. XXII. 531 To expose such showy platitudinarians as Tupper. 1876Geo. Eliot Dan. Der. xxii, A political platitudinarian as insensible as an ox to everything he can't turn into political capital. 1890Cornh. Mag. Dec. 580 A man of words rather than of action, a platitudinarian.
B. adj. Characterized by platitude; addicted to the use of platitudes.
1866Contemp. Rev. I. 164 Of all forms of cant and platitude, probably the most unreal and platitudinarian. 1884Chr. Commw. 23 Oct. 20/3 All our colleges together manufacture only platitudinarian pulpiteers.
Hence platitudiˈnarianism.
1887A. J. Gordon in Missionary Herald Sept. 367 As much need to be on their guard against platitudinarianism as against latitudinarianism. 1892J. B. Allen in Academy 23 Jan. 84/2 One of the most tiresome of the minor faults to which novelists are liable is platitudinarianism. |