Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of or relating to members of the Anglican Communion in the late 19th century who favored liberalization of ritual and doctrine.
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Examples
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From all these things the natural inference would seem to be that the authoress is neither High-Church nor Low-Church nor Dissenter, but a tolerant member of what is styled the Broad-Church party -- a party in which we are obliged to say that breadth and toleration are by no means universal.
Famous Reviews R. Brimley Johnson 1899
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The Broad-Church party, in the English Church, among whose most eminent exponents have been Frederic Robertson, Arnold of Rugby, {237} F.
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