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Oxford movement   /ˈɑksfərd mˈuvmənt/   Listen
adjective
Oxford  adj.  Of or pertaining to the city or university of Oxford, England.
Oxford movement. See Tractarianism.
Oxford School, a name given to those members of the Church of England who adopted the theology of the so-called Oxford "Tracts for the Times," issued the period 1833 1841.
Oxford tie, a kind of shoe, laced on the instep, and usually covering the foot nearly to the ankle.






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"Oxford movement" Quotes from Famous Books



... gave rise to the "Oxford Movement." Keble thought that the time had come when "scoundrels must be called scoundrels." His Sermon on "National Apostasy" was preached on the ...
— Sydney Smith • George W. E. Russell

... then upon its fall. The great Oxford movement, which besides its purely ecclesiastical effects, had linked English religion once more to human history, and which was itself one of the unexpected outcomes of the romantic movement, had spent its original force, and no longer interested the stronger minds among ...
— Critical Miscellanies (Vol 3 of 3) - The Life of George Eliot • John Morley



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