Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The principles of High-churchmen.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The principles of the high-church party.
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Examples
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All ritualism, all tractarianism, and much high-churchism is in secret, if not in avowed, rebellion against such a supremacy; and if it
Memoirs of the Life and Correspondence of Henry Reeve, C.B., D.C.L. In Two Volumes. Volume II. John Knox Laughton 1872
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As long as he taught in private he escaped all general antagonism; but on the publication of his work he became the mark of envy, formalism, and high-churchism.
History of Rationalism Embracing a Survey of the Present State of Protestant Theology 1868
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Never did high-churchism take such rapid strides towards undisputed domination in this country as it is now taking.
The Story of My Life Being Reminiscences of Sixty Years' Public Service in Canada Egerton Ryerson 1842
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In this enlightened country of free thought and action such high-churchism cannot long maintain itself; its most peculiar fruit is bigotry, ostracism, strife, and separation. "
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