accommodationist

noun

Someone who tries to accommodate an opposition, usually a political one.

OriginEnglish accommodation ← French accommodation ← Latin accommodātiōnem →
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Meanings

nounaccommodationist (plural accommodationists)

plural accommodationists · alternative accommodationalist

  1. Someone who tries to accommodate an opposition, usually a political one.
    1. Someone who argues that freedom of religion does not necessarily force a government to demonstrably prove nonestablishment (for example, an argument that state-funded schools don't have to ban the presence of religious things (e.g., Bibles, Torahs, Qur'ans, voluntary prayers) to prove governmental neutrality about religion and nonreligion).

Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*h₂éd
  2. Proto-Italic*ad
  3. Proto-Italic*ad-
  4. Latinad-
  5. Proto-Indo-European*ḱe?
  6. Proto-Indo-European*ḱóm
  7. Proto-Italic*kom
  8. Proto-Italic*kom-
  9. Latincom-
  10. Proto-Indo-European*med-
  11. Proto-Indo-European*médos
  12. Proto-Italic*medos
  13. Latinmodus
  14. Latincommodus
  15. Latincommodum
  16. Latincommodō
  17. Latinaccommodō
  18. Latinaccommodātiōnem
  19. Frenchaccommodation
  20. Englishaccommodation
  21. Englishaccommodationist

By surface analysis, accommodation + ist, or, by surface analysis, accommodation(ism) + -ist.

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Translations

Portuguese acomodacionista
  • acomodacionistasomeone who accommodates opposition and compromises their own stance
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APA

accommodationist. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/accommodationist

MLA

“accommodationist.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/accommodationist. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “accommodationist,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/accommodationist.

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