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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High Churchman West has usually disagreed with the theological opinions of his bishop.
From Time Magazine Archive
For 30 years this sombre yet brilliant High Churchman has been what Britons call a "pillar of reform."
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
Last week, after preaching at the morning service, 52-year-old High Churchman Kernan told his rector that he did not consider himself an Episcopalian any more: he was seeking admission to the Roman Catholic Church.
From Time Magazine Archive
He was a zealous High Churchman and Jacobite.
From Immortal Memories by Clement King Shorter
But, like many another Episcopal body politic, it suffers from pains in the joints where High-Churchman meets Low-Churchman.
From Time Magazine Archive
He had a considerable hand in a Letter to a High-Churchman.
From The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) Volume III by Theophilus Cibber
I think he was really a very High-Churchman.
From The Hallam Succession by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
"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
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
