high-churchman love

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One of those members of the Anglican Church who maintain or attach especial importance to certain strict views of doctrine.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One who holds high-church principles.

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Examples

  • These gentlemen, with an equal share of pride, pedantry, and saturnine disposition, were, by the accidents of education and company, diametrically opposite in political maxims; the one, as we have already observed, being a bigoted high-churchman, and the other a rank republican.

    The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle 2004

  • From the first settlement in 1607 the policy in Virginia was to let no question arise between high-churchman and Calvinist.

    Religious Life of Virginia in the Seventeenth Century The Faith of Our Fathers 1919

  • A modern high-churchman [1150] asserts that the King's

    Henry VIII. 1908

  • That man used to be a Methodist minister, and he was brought into the fold by a high-churchman.

    Stories of a western town 1893

  • That man used to be a Methodist minister, and he was brought into the fold by a high-churchman.

    Stories of a Western Town Octave Thanet 1892

  • There is an elaborate presentation of a quite impossibly named clergyman, who is, it seems, an anticipator of "le Puseysme" and an actual high-churchman, who talks as never high-churchman talked from

    A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century George Saintsbury 1889

  • He was himself a high-churchman in his spirit, both in reference to the divine institution of the presbyterian form of government and the ascendancy of the Church as a great power in the world.

    Beacon Lights of History John Lord 1852

  • He was a high-churchman, who sought to make the spiritual power independent of the temporal.

    Beacon Lights of History John Lord 1852

  • He was simply the high-churchman aiming to secure the ascendency of the spiritual power.

    Beacon Lights of History John Lord 1852

  • Tom professed himself, albeit a high-churchman, a strong King

    The History of Henry Esmond 1852

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