High Church
adjective
pertaining to the view or practice in the Anglican church that emphasizes the Catholic tradition, especially in adherence to sacraments, rituals, and obedience to church authority.
High Churchman
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a word derived from
High Church.
High-Churchman
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a word derived from
High Church.
High Churchadjectivepertaining to the view or practice in the Anglican church that emphasizes the Catholic tradition, especially in adherence to sacraments, rituals, and obedience to church authority.
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He is also a High Churchman who has taken a definite stand on the most emotional issue in worldwide Anglicanism: he opposes the ordination of women as priests, at least in England.
From Time Magazine Archive
It was he who had prodded T. S. Eliot, poet and High Churchman, to write two of the most popular modern religious plays: The Rock and Murder in the Cathedral.
From Time Magazine Archive
High Churchman West has usually disagreed with the theological opinions of his bishop.
From Time Magazine Archive
He warns that unity is "not just togetherness with one another," but getting together with the Roman Catholic Church is simplified for High Churchman Ramsey by the feeling that he never left it.
From Time Magazine Archive
He was a High Churchman, but all his family were Nonconformists.
From East Anglia Personal Recollections and Historical Associations by J. Ewing (James Ewing) Ritchie
But, like many another Episcopal body politic, it suffers from pains in the joints where High-Churchman meets Low-Churchman.
From Time Magazine Archive
"Yet surely the so-called Evangelical believes more than the Unitarian, and the High-Churchman than the Evangelical," objected Charles.
From Loss and Gain The Story of a Convert by John Henry Newman
But like the Doctor, too, she believed that marriage was indissoluble; the Carolina High-Churchman and the Vermont Calvinist were agreed in this.
From East Angels by Constance Fenimore Woolson
The High-Churchman, with his perilous inclination to fervour, he was afraid of as a disturbing element, and kept him out of his drawings.
From George Du Maurier, the Satirist of the Victorians by T. Martin Wood
He always claimed to have been a consistent Old Whig—that is, as he understood it, a High-Churchman who accepted the Revolution of 1688.
From The Function of the Poet and Other Essays by James Russell Lowell
