Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of or relating to a group in the Anglican Church that stresses the historical continuity of the church and favors established liturgies and forms of worship.
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Examples
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I'm not exactly sure why, except that at my first High-Church Episcopal All Saints' Day service, I heard some spectacular music and the wonderful readings on the day - and both things have stayed with me ever since.
Archive 2008-11-01 bls 2008
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I'm not exactly sure why, except that at my first High-Church Episcopal All Saints' Day service, I heard some spectacular music and the wonderful readings on the day - and both things have stayed with me ever since.
November 1: The Feast of All Saints bls 2008
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Whigs and Tories, High-Church and Low-Church, Jacobites and Williamites, and many more Distinctions, which they divide and sub-divide, 'till at last they make this Dis-union meet in an harmonious Tea-Table
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You two made the headlines by a hostile Reformed baptist guy who has it out for High-Church Anglicans.
I miss "The Inclusive Worshipper" blog Fr Timothy Matkin 2006
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These curates were full of strong, High-Church feeling.
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High-Church, Apostolical-Succession discourse, in which he banged the Dissenters most fearlessly and unflinchingly.
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High-Church sentiment, which at last proved so edifying to the
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 12, No. 32, November, 1873 Various
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In vain her sister Martha explained that she sinned in good company, for many "High-Church people did the same, and one gentleman and lady with ten thousand pounds a year, who have always the Church prayers performed morning and evening in their family."
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. July, 1878. Various
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I may remark, in passing, that this course of conduct so disgusted the High-Church rector of the parish, that he not only ignored all new devils, (as Mr. Carlyle might have called them,) but talked as if the millennium, were _un fait accompli_, and he had leisure to go and hammer at the poor dead old troubles of Luther's time.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 49, November, 1861 Various
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High-Church bigot: the English discussions upon points of exegesis and theology appear to him threatening to prove the Christian faith false, but for his part he still sees reasons to suppose it true, and this, among others, that it taught Original Sin, the Corruption of Man's
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864 Various
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