tutioristn.
/ˈtjuːʃɪərɪst/ Roman Catholic Church.
One who holds that in cases of conscience the course of greater moral safety should be chosen. Cf. rigorist n. and laxist n. Also attributive.
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tutiorist1879
1879 W. E. Gladstone Gleanings Past Years VII. iv. 192 There is also in the Latin Church a rigid school of those who pass by the name of Tutiorists.
1885 W. E. Addis & T. Arnold Catholic Dict. (ed. 3) 602/2 The Rigorists, or Tutiorists..held that we must always take the safer way, always sacrifice our freedom, however small the probability that our freedom is restrained by the law.
1906 Church Times 2 Mar. 291 Hence the prevailing ‘tutiorist’ tone [in the Lower House of Convocation].
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ˈtutiorism n. the doctrine of the tutiorists; a less strict form of rigorism n.
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tutiorism1885
1885 W. E. Addis & T. Arnold Catholic Dict. (ed. 3) 603/2 We cannot see that Probabiliorism is logical and consistent,..the arguments adduced by its advocates really tend to Tutiorism.
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