Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Exalting the authority of the church; laying great stress on church authority and jurisdiction: used specifically of those in the Anglican Church who are known as High-churchmen, and of their principles. See
High-churchman .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to, or favoring, the party called the High Church, or their doctrines or policy. See High Church, under
high , a.
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Examples
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He had written a satirical tract on the religious intolerance of high-church Anglicans.
Writing Up a Storm John J. Miller 2011
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From the late 90s until 2006, I managed the moderately successful band British Sea Power; self-proclaimed suppliers of "high-church amplified rock music".
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But there's all an unfolding pattern ... the stream which eventually prevailed was more democratic, more adventuresome, more entrepreneurial, away from the high-church thought process, not wrapped up with monarchy.
Paula Gordon: Make a Joyful Noise Paula Gordon 2011
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Fred, ‘high-church’ means an Anglo-Catholic, someone who belongs to the side of Anglicanism closer to the Catholic church.
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And usually the side that was low-church rather than high-church.
Paula Gordon: Make a Joyful Noise Paula Gordon 2011
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Worse, I think, is that many mainline, evangelical, high-church, or whatever Christian groups have largely sold out the heart of the gospel in their dedication to the service of America--its military, its businesses, the political establishment and its incendiary politics of destruction, its economic injustice--with a sideline interest in selling eternal fire insurance.
TEXAS FAITH: Why are millennials dropping out? | RELIGION Blog | dallasnews.com 2010
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No where near enough churches--mainline, evangelical, high-church, or whatever--are doing that sort of thing, so far as I am aware.
TEXAS FAITH: Why are millennials dropping out? | RELIGION Blog | dallasnews.com 2010
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The gray stone Gothic campus still feels a little high-church royalist, lined with long windowed cloisters and arched doorways that look onto wide courtyards and sheltering trees.
A Grand and Bold Thing Ann Finkbeiner 2010
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It's a small congregation, just five or six tourists, but high-church ritual is still meticulously observed.
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The gray stone Gothic campus still feels a little high-church royalist, lined with long windowed cloisters and arched doorways that look onto wide courtyards and sheltering trees.
A Grand and Bold Thing Ann Finkbeiner 2010
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