a cleric who holds more than one benefice at a time
<noun.person>
a philosopher who believes that no single explanation can account for all the phenomena of nature
<noun.person>
someone who believes that distinct ethnic or cultural or religious groups can exist together in society
<noun.person>
Pluralist \Plu"ral*ist\, n. (Eccl.) A clerk or clergyman who holds more than one ecclesiastical benefice. [Eng.]
Of the parochial clergy, a large proportion were pluralists. --Macaulay.
"The fact that I was a conciliator or consensus-builder in a pluralist branch of government does not necessarily mean I would have the same role to play as the president's chief of staff," Mr. Baker said in an interview yesterday.
Different cultures should not be forcibly merged, but cherished as something that 'enriched' a pluralist society.
"If the results are confirmed this doesn't seem to be the result of a pluralist system and this worries me," said Adelaide Aglietta, a lawmaker from Italy's Green Party.
It will get passed around." The ruling party has voted leading reformers onto its decision-making political bureau, advancing the president's plan to change Angola's Marxist-inspired political system into a pluralist democracy.