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Answer for the clue "Cleric who holds more than one benefice at a time - April lust ", 9 letters:
pluralist

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Word definitions for pluralist in dictionaries

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A person who holds multiple offices, especially a clergyman who holds more than one ecclesiastical benefice. 2 An advocate of pluralism (in all senses)

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. a philosopher who believes that no single explanation can account for all the phenomena of nature someone who believes that distinct ethnic or cultural or religious groups can exist together in society

Usage examples of pluralist.

And we would help create a new pluralist, inclusive political system that might not necessarily be a Western-style democracy but might be the first Arab-style democracy.

If the United States ensured their security, provided substantial economic support, and assisted in the creation of a stable, inclusive, and pluralist Iraqi political system, it seems quite likely that the Iraqi people would approve of the U.

Kurds greater control over their own destiny, even if it were within a federal, pluralist system.

Nevertheless, there is no reason that Iraq must adopt a full-blown Western system of democracy, rather than creating a new Arab-style pluralist state.

Iraq must adopt a full-blown Western system of democracy, rather than creating a new Arab-style pluralist state.

Add to this the immense working power of these pluralist giants, for you will generally find that the well-to-do chapeller with his third wife, or more, is a man who has raised himself from very much nothing to very much something.

Democratic Alternative in Britain, upholding a democratic Yugoslavia that would be a pluralist and polycentric community.

And we would help create a new pluralist, inclusive political system that might not necessarily be a Western-style democracy but might be the first Arab-style democracy.

Nevertheless, there is no reason that Iraq must adopt a full-blown Western system of democracy, rather than creating a new Arab-style pluralist state.

Adolphus Irwine, Rector of Broxton, Vicar of Hayslope, and Vicar of Blythe, a pluralist at whom the severest Church reformer would have found it difficult to look sour.

And while the African Pluralists League organized worldwide student exchange programs, theatre and dance tours, physical and net-based art exhibitions, and lobbied aggressively against cultural isolationism and discriminatory treatment of ethnic, religious and sexual minorities .