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Whitgiftian, n. and a.|hwɪtˈgɪftɪən|
[f. Whitgift + -ian.]
A. n. A pupil or former pupil of Whitgift School, Croydon.
B. adj. Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of John Whitgift (c 1530–1604), Archbishop of Canterbury and founder of Whitgift School.
1880Whitgift Mag. Jan. 13/2 We were glad to notice among the Chorus several ‘Old Whitgiftians’. 1905(title) The Whitgiftian. [Previously The Whitgift Magazine.] 1962Hist. Mag. Protestant Episcopal Church U.S. XXXI. 128 The picturesquely rhetorical phrase of F. W. Maitland has been considered the most decent dismissal of the whole Whitgiftian flavour: ‘a remorseless pre⁓destinarian’. 1967P. Collison Elizabethan Puritan Movem. v. i. 245 Of this generation of clergy, few with minds of their own would subscribe to the Whitgiftian formula without a qualm. 1977P. Clark Eng. Provincial Soc. from Reformation to Revolution v. 184 In the county [of Kent]..the Whitgiftian reaction caused a marked polarisation between moderate Puritans and conformist Presbyterians on the one hand, and less respectable radicals and separatists on the other. |