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

  • He had written a satirical tract on the religious intolerance of high-church Anglicans.

    Writing Up a Storm John J. Miller 2011

  • From the late 90s until 2006, I managed the moderately successful band British Sea Power; self-proclaimed suppliers of "high-church amplified rock music".

    My dad, the revolutionary disciple of indie rock 2011

  • 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

  • Fred, ‘high-church’ means an Anglo-Catholic, someone who belongs to the side of Anglicanism closer to the Catholic church.

    Matthew Yglesias » Israel Bans Arab Parties 2009

  • And usually the side that was low-church rather than high-church.

    Paula Gordon: Make a Joyful Noise Paula Gordon 2011

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • It's a small congregation, just five or six tourists, but high-church ritual is still meticulously observed.

    Should women ever be bishops? 2010

  • 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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