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  • noun Plural form of Anglican.

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Examples

  • There were Puritians and Calvinests from New England, Quakers from Pennsylvania, Anglicans from the Southern states and most of the key figures like Jefferson were Diests.

    LIVE Blog: Chat with us during the show 2010

  • Although England has 24 million baptized Anglicans (out of a total population of 48 million), a 1992 survey showed that only 1.8 million regularly worship on Sundays.

    Pink Collars For Anglicans 2008

  • Episcopalians do not like to be called Anglicans; Friends, Quakers; Baptists, Hardshells;

    The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 2, August, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various

  • Nonconformists -- the general body of Anglicans, which is every year becoming more and more radical in its tone will be brought within a generation or two to such a degree of doctrinal unity and Catholic spirit among themselves as to make it likely that, as an organized body of bishops, clergy, and laity, they will approach the Holy See in the full spirit of submission, and ask to be received into its communion?

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 15: Tournely-Zwirner 1840-1916 1913

  • The Anglicans have joined the Romanists to denounce as heretics those who rebelled against the church which still calls Anglicans heretics.

    The Age of the Reformation Preserved Smith 1910

  • There was a small body of Christians in England called Anglicans, who attempted to hold another view; there was that short-lived movement called Modernism, that held yet a third position.

    Dawn of All Robert Hugh Benson 1892

  • The Anglicans are a broad church and have a history of trying, and generally failing to keep disparate voices happy on a range of issues

    The Guardian World News Paul Owen 2011

  • To call Anglicans to repentance for the wrongs - of both word and deed - inflicted by

    Palestine Blogs aggregator 2010

  • The Dominus Iesus, a dormant, but longstanding document, calls Anglicans and Protestants "not true Churches."

    Queerty 2009

  • Conference of the Anglican Churches of the Americas in Mutual Responsibility and Mission have proposed adding a sixth mark that would call Anglicans to work for peace, conflict transformation and reconciliation. instruments of communion, the others being the Archbishop of Canterbury (who serves as president of the ACC), the Lambeth Conference of Anglican bishops, and the Primates Meeting.

    Anglican Mainstream 2009

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