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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The religious views and theories of John Henry Newman (1801–90), during the period just prior to his conversion to the Roman Catholic Church, in which he sought to find a ‘middle way’ between Anglicanism and Roman Catholicism; especially, the doctrine laid down in the famous Tract XC., in the interpretation of the Thirty-nine articles.

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