Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The faith, doctrine, system, and practice of the Anglican Church.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The principles of the Anglican Church or of Anglicans.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Strong partiality to the principles and rites of the Church of England.
- noun The principles of the established church of England; also, in a restricted sense, the doctrines held by the high-church party.
- noun Attachment to England or English institutions.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The beliefs and practices of the
Anglican Church - noun dated Attachment to
England orEnglish institutions .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the faith and doctrine and practice of the Anglican Church
Etymologies
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Examples
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Theresa had serious doubts as to what she termed Anglicanism, reckoning against it every laxity in doctrine or in discipline that came to her knowledge, and admiring everything in other branches of the Church.
Heartsease, Or, the Brother's Wife Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862
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His kind of Anglicanism is benign and pretty harmless.
Richard Dawkins: Muslim parents import creationism into schools 2008
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The report, prepared for the Anglican Diocese of British Columbia, calls Canada a post-Christian society in which Anglicanism is declining faster than any other denomination.
Anglican Church facing the threat of extinction « Anglican Samizdat 2010
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For almost 500 years within Anglicanism, and 2000 years in Christianity, the elevation of a man to the Episcopate was not done by a vote of the laity and a vote of the clergy.
Anglican Church of Canada is hawking the silverware « Anglican Samizdat 2010
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Almost anything regarding Anglicanism is hilarious.
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Conservatism in Anglicanism seems to be mostly concerned with a right wing political and social agenda and makes efforts to ape the worst of Protestant fundamentalism, oddly calling it “orthodox” Anglicanism.
Selected heresies from the Diocese of Niagara « Anglican Samizdat 2010
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Almost anything regarding Anglicanism is hilarious.
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I am an Anglican, but I can state as a neutral matter of fact that Anglicanism is a heresy of Catholicism.
Matthew Yglesias » The War on Christmas: The Early Years 2008
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The slow suicide of Anglicanism is displayed and described in minutest detail, and even those who want to preserve the Chuch, like the saintly Peter Akinola of Nigeria, are allowed to present their arguments in their own words.
Band - And Banned Laban 2005
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The slow suicide of Anglicanism is displayed and described in minutest detail, and even those who want to preserve the Chuch, like the saintly Peter Akinola of Nigeria, are allowed to present their arguments in their own words.
Archive 2005-09-11 Laban 2005
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