Anglicanism

[ ang-gli-kuh-niz-uhm ]

noun

1. the doctrines, principles, or system of the Anglican Church.

Word History and Origins

Origin of Anglicanism¹

First recorded in 1840–50; Anglican + -ism

Example Sentences

But Anglicanism—rich Anglicanism—has also been placed on the rates.

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And no Puseyism either: broad, earnest religious teaching, with a leaning to moderate Anglicanism, should be the faith of Lupton.

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Born and educated in Anglicanism, he has given great attention to religious truth, and in particular to the points in question.

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Nature-worship—or "aboriginal genuflexion," he calls it; Anglicanism, Methodism; he stands to engage them.

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Even within orthodox Anglicanism poetry and religion began to be deemed no fit company for each other.

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