Anglo-Catholicismn.
/ˌaŋɡləʊkəˈθɒlᵻsɪz(ə)m/, U.S. /ˌæŋɡloʊkəˈθɑləˌsɪz(ə)m/ The religious doctrines and practices of Anglo-Catholics; Anglo-Catholics collectively. Also: the religion of the Church of England as constituted by the Reformation and regarded as part of the universal Church; cf. Anglo-Catholic adj. 1.
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High Church1693
high flying1703
High-Churchship1720
High Churchism1765
High Churchmanship1818
High-Churchmanism1827
Laudisma1834
Anglo-Catholicism1838
Canterburianism1847
Laudianism1872
1838 J. H. Newman in Brit. Crit. 24 61 The heroine..after going through the phases of Protestantism..seeks for something deeper and truer in Anglicanism, or, as Mr. Palmer more correctly speaks in his recent work, Anglo-Catholicism.
1842 E. B. Pusey Crisis Eng. Church 141 When Greek Catholicism..becomes well-disposed to Anglo-Catholicism.
1844 W. Gresley Anglo-Catholicism i. 1 The subject intended to be discussed in the following pages, and designated for the sake of brevity, by the term ‘Anglo-Catholicism’, is the system of belief and practice adopted in the Anglican branch of the Church Universal, or in other words, The religion of the Church of England.
1900 Times 19 Sept. 4/5 Anglo-Catholicism is a strong and a growing force not to be unduly compressed without the danger of a violent explosion.
1949 Jrnl. Relig. 29 69/1 With regard to dogma, church, and ministry he had grown from Anglo-Catholicism to Evangelical Catholicism.
2005 Church Times 19 Aug. 25/3 He became concerned that trends in the Church of England were moving it in a direction that was increasingly difficult to reconcile with Anglo-Catholicism.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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