latitudinous

[ lat-i-tood-n-uhs, -tyood- ]

adjective

1. having latitude, scope, range, breadth, etc., especially of ideas, interests, interpretations, or the like:

   a Renaissance man of latitudinous outlook.

Word History and Origins

Origin of latitudinous¹

1830–40; < Latin lātitūdin- ( latitudinal ) + -ous

Example Sentences

Courts, in one or more cases, have intimated that the power in question may be implied from the express power to coin money, but inasmuch as no decided case is referred to where the judgment of the court rests upon that ground, the suggestion will be dismissed without further consideration, as one involving a proposition too latitudinous to require refutation.

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There was one of our stokers, and one night he was drunk on stolen gin, and latitudinous, and so attempted a curious answer to the second engineer, who sought him out in the forecastle concerning work.

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The power of appropriating money from the Treasury for such improvements was not claimed or exercised for more than thirty years after the organization of the Government in 1789, when a more latitudinous construction was indicated, though it was not broadly asserted and exercised until 1825.

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In a few years after that period a broad and latitudinous construction of the powers of the Federal Government unfortunately received but too much countenance.

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Soon after leaving San Pablo the country gets somewhat "choppy," and the road a succession of short-hills, at the bottom of which modest-looking mud-holes patiently await an opportunity to make one's acquaintance, or scraggy-looking, latitudinous washouts are awaiting their chance to commit a murder, or to make the unwary cycler who should venture to "coast," think he had wheeled over the tail of an earthquake.

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