Febronianadj.n.
/fɛˈbrəʊnɪən/ A. adj.
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.
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Febronian1882
1882 P. Schaff et al. Relig. Encycl. I. 722 In harmony with the Febronian principles.
1885 W. E. Addis & T. Arnold Catholic Dict. (ed. 3) 346/1 The notorious Church reforms of Joseph II may be fairly called Febronian.
B. n.
A follower of Febronius.
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Febronian1884
1884 W. E. Addis & T. Arnold Catholic 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.
1895 19th Cent. Nov. 797 Protestants of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries were succeeded by Febronians and Jansenists in the eighteenth.
Derivatives
Feˈbronianism n. the doctrine thus maintained.
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Febronianism1856
1856 Literary Churchman II. 66/1 The extract on the Erastianism, or ‘Febronianism’, of Austria is as follows.
1885 W. E. Addis & T. Arnold Catholic Dict. (ed. 3) 244/2 Febronianism..may be roughly described as an exaggeration of Gallicanism.
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