# The Reverend Mr. Platitude — Lavengro character guide

> The Reverend Mr. Platitude in Lavengro by George Borrow.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** Mr. Platitude, Reverend Mr. Platitude, Platitude, Poor Platitude

**First appearance:** 0004-i

## Who they are

A clergyman who debates with Lavengro about religion and politics.

## In the story

### [XXII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/lavengro_se/chapters/xxii)

An Antinomian clergyman who sells the narrator a Danish Bible and a book by Lodowick Muggleton, helping him learn Danish.

### [LXVII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/lavengro_se/chapters/lxvii)

A priggish clergyman who argues for Church authority against Dissenters, has traveled to Italy, and is described as a tool of a sharking priest.

### [XCIV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/lavengro_se/chapters/xciv)

Referenced as an example of a clergyman who brings the church into contempt.

### [XXVIII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/lavengro_se/chapters/xxviii)

Travels with the man in black, speaking broken Italian and acting ridiculously.

### [On Gentility Nonsense](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/lavengro_se/chapters/iv-on-gentility-nonsense)

Referenced indirectly in the critique of aristocratic values and religious hypocrisy.

### [The Old Radical](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/lavengro_se/chapters/xi-the-old-radical)

Mentioned as the minister whose chapel some of the Radical's children joined.

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