Anglicanizationn.
/ˌaŋɡlᵻk(ə)nʌɪˈzeɪʃn/, U.S. /ˌæŋɡləkənəˈzeɪʃən/, /ˌæŋɡləkəˌnaɪˈzeɪʃən/ Originally: = anglicization n. 1. Later also (Christian Church): the action of making something Anglican (in doctrine or character); the process of becoming Anglican.
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Anglification1797
anglicization1847
Anglicanization1874
1874 M. G. J. Kinloch Hist. Scotl. xix. 173 The reverence for the caves and wells of our holy departed countrymen, which in the Anglicanization of the church [in 14th-cent. Scotland] had been obscured, began to revive.
1913 C. Weygandt Irish Plays & Playwrights iv. 85 It were better for Ireland to be depopulated in her pursuit of national individuality..than to drift along to complete Anglicanization.
1956 N. Sikes Old Priest & New Presbyter vi. 164 He reordained three Lutheran missionaries..and thereby set forward the Anglicanisation of the existing personnel.
1985 Economist 30 Nov. 54/2 The conservatives..argue that a strong episcopacy would lead to the ‘Anglicanization’ of the Roman Catholic church.
1994 S. Berrol East Side/East End ii. 38 Traditional Hebrew schools..were a major target of the assimilationists, who detested them because they interfered with Anglicanization.
2007 Guardian (Nexis) 23 Jan. (Educ. section) 1 The school has an Anglican chaplain... But the governors fear a creeping Anglicanisation that would change the school for ever.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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