| 单词 | the disruption |
| 释义 | > as lemmasthe Disruption 3. spec. the Disruption: the name applied to the great split in the Established Church of Scotland, 18th May 1843, when 451 ministers left that Church and formed themselves into the Free Protesting (afterwards, simply, the Free) Church of Scotland.The cause of their separation was the failure of the Church to maintain its complete independence in matters spiritual as against the interference of the Civil Courts (Court of Session), for which the Evangelical party had carried on a ‘Ten Years' Conflict’ against the ‘Moderates’. ΚΠ 1843 R. S. Candlish Speech 30 Mar. in Life (1880) 293 All the people are concerned in making preparation for that disruption which is now inevitable. 1843 R. S. Candlish Speech 6 Sept. in Life (1880) 315 The Free Church, since the Disruption has in a wonderful manner kept herself free from..attacks on the existing Establishment. 1886 J. H. Blunt Dict. Sects 167/1 The standing outside the Establishment for a quarter of a century has much weakened the adherence..to the original views maintained at the Disruption. < as lemmas |
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