via media
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Learned borrowing from Latin via media (“middle way”).
Noun[edit]
- A third way; a middle course, a compromise.
- 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 199:
- The quip highlighted the extent to which the philosophes were seeking a via media between what they saw as the morally and intellectually impoverished tradition of Christian revelation and its embattled polar opposite, a sceptical materialism [...].