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Febronian, a. and n.|fɛˈbrəʊnɪən|
[f. Febrōnius + -an.]
Of or pertaining to (Justinus) Febronius; a pseudonym under which J. N. von Hontheim of Treves wrote in the 18th century, maintaining the independence of national churches. Also n., a follower of Febronius.
Hence Feˈbronianism, the doctrine thus maintained.
1856Literary Churchman II. 66/1 The extract on the Erastianism, or ‘Febronianism’, of Austria is as follows. 1882Schaff Encycl. Relig. Knowl. I. 722 In harmony with the Febronian principles. 1884Addis & Arnold Cath. Dict. 346/2 The Pope's power was to be reduced to that which Febronians supposed him to have exercised in the first three centuries. 1885Catholic Dict. 244/2 Febronianism..may be roughly described as an exaggeration of Gallicanism. Ibid. 346/1 The notorious Church reforms of Joseph II may be fairly called Febronian. 189519th Cent. Nov. 797 Protestants of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries were succeeded by Febronians and Jansenists in the eighteenth. |