Low Churchman

American  

noun

1. a person who advocates or follows Low Church practices.

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Etymology

Origin of Low Churchman

First recorded in 1695–1705

Example Sentences

Now it is a high churchman who gives a picture of this "Niobe of nations," tinted couleur de rose; now a low churchman, who talks of nothing but abominations of a deeper dye; now some classical student tells how— "The Goth, the Christian, time, war, flood, and fire Have dealt upon the seven hill'd city's pride;" now some worshipper of art, who unfolds the treasures garnered within its walls; now a politician loud in his praises of Young Italy, or his condemnation of foreign interference.

From Project Gutenberg

Now there happened to be at St. Giles's a curate who was a Low Churchman.

From Project Gutenberg

Low Churchman Fisher himself preferred another man, and one British publisher summed up: "He went to a second-rate public school, got a second at university, was an indifferent Archbishop of York, and therefore he'll make a perfect Canterbury."

From Time Magazine Archive

Rancor flared only briefly during its good-humored deliberations, and just before adjourning Low Churchman Roswell Page of Virginia joined with High Churchman Clifford P. Morehouse of Milwaukee in leading the House of Deputies in "Blest Be the Tie That Binds."

From Time Magazine Archive

Of those who got it before Presiding Bishop Perry called the session closed that day, none was more outraged than Bishop Edward Lambe Parsons, California low churchman and Socialist.

From Time Magazine Archive