neo-Catholic

American  

[ne-oh-kath-uh-lik, -kath-lik] / ˌnɛ oʊˈkæθ ə lɪk, -ˈkæθ lɪk /

adjective

1. of or relating to those Anglicans who avowedly prefer the doctrines, rituals, etc., of the Roman Catholic Church to those of the Anglican communion.

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noun

1. a neo-Catholic person.

Other Word Forms

• neo-Catholicism noun

Etymology

Origin of neo-Catholic

First recorded in 1835–45

Example Sentences

That scene, in which Kristin’s abuela drops by her neo-Catholic family’s holiday celebration and makes jokes about having to pee standing up, is funny and bizarre.

From Slate

The work of the Oxford Architectural Society, which had its birth in the Neo-Catholic movement, may prove more durable than that movement itself.

From Project Gutenberg

His experience in writing church music for a Roman Catholic service cannot be overlooked in regard to this and other works by Elgar, who came to be regarded as the representative of a Catholic or neo-Catholic style of religious music, for which an appreciative public was ready in England at the moment, owing to the recent developments in the more artistic and sensuous side of the religious movement.

From Project Gutenberg

A fellow worker with Montalembert, though earlier cut off, was Frédéric Ozanam, a brilliant student and lecturer in mediaeval history, who was the chief literary critic of the Neo-Catholic movement during the later years of Louis Philippe's reign.

From Project Gutenberg

Vittoria herself, an ardent Neo-Catholic, vowed to perpetual widowhood since the news had reached her, seventeen years before, that her husband, the youthful and princely Marquess of Pescara, lay dead of the wounds he had received in the battle of Pavia, was then no longer an object of great passion.

From Project Gutenberg