Puseyism
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Thenceforward Punch's religious war was directed chiefly against Puseyism and its "toys"—by which were designated the cross, candlesticks, and flowers.
From The History of "Punch" by Spielmann, M. H. (Marion Harry)
You never hear of Puseyism in the Tower Hamlets; you might as soon expect to find the Italian Opera there as a St. Barnabas.
From The London Pulpit by Ritchie, J. Ewing (James Ewing)
Puseyism may retain as many in the English Church as it may send to Rome.
From The London Pulpit by Ritchie, J. Ewing (James Ewing)
But on the whole Universal Puseyism seemed to me the humor of German, especially of Berlin thinkers;—and I had some quite portentous specimens of that kind,—unconscious specimens of four hundred quack power!
From The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol II. by Carlyle, Thomas
But if the reader will find his common notions of Puseyism revolutionized by the present novel, he will be a little startled at its real doctrines and intentions.
From Graham's Magazine Vol XXXIII No. 3 September 1848 by Various
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