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Anglicanism

[ang-gli-kuh-niz-uhm]

noun

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



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Word History and Origins

Origin of Anglicanism1

First recorded in 1840–50; Anglican + -ism
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Example Sentences

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The British monarch is head of the Church of England, the mother church of global Anglicanism.

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Speaking from Canterbury Cathedral, she said that "in an age that craves certainty and tribalism, Anglicanism offers something quieter but stronger".

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When Henry broke with Rome, he held on to the title, but now he was defending the Anglicanism of the Church of England.

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His eventual commitment to an exceptionally austere Anglicanism revolutionized Eliot’s later life but ruined Hale’s.

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When Henry broke with the Catholic Church, he held on to the title, but now he was defending the Anglicanism of the Church of England.

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Anglican CommunionˈAnglicaˌnism