via media

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via media

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Learned borrowing from Latin via media (“a middle way”).

noun

A third way; a middle course, a compromise. 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 [...].

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@misc{via_media_2026,
  title = {via media},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/via%20media},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}