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noun

Anglicanism n.

Strong partiality to the principles and rites of the Church of England.

The principles of the established church of England; also, in a restricted sense, the doctrines held by the high-church party.

Attachment to England or English institutions.

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Etymology of 'Anglicanism'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Anglicanism" Quotes from Famous Books

... may, however, to some extent, be regarded as an extreme re-action from the penal times, when the hunted soggarth had to celebrate the Mass in cabins and caves on the mountain side—a re-action the converse of which was witnessed in Protestant England when Puritanism rose up against Anglicanism in the seventeenth century. This expenditure, however, has been incurred; and, no one, I take it, would advocate the demolition of existing religious edifices on the ground that their erection had been unduly costly! The moral is for the present and the future, ...

— Ireland In The New Century • Horace Plunkett

... prominent faiths Calvinism was nearest to their feelings and ways of thought. Of the great recognized creeds it was the most republican in its tendencies, and so the best suited to the backwoodsmen. They disliked Anglicanism as much as they abhorred and despised Romanism—theoretically at least, for practically then as now frontiersmen were liberal to one another's religious opinions, and the staunch friend and good hunter might follow whatever creed he wished, provided ...

— The Winning of the West, Volume Two - From the Alleghanies to the Mississippi, 1777-1783 • Theodore Roosevelt

Words linked to "Anglicanism" : Protestantism, Anglo-Catholicism, High Anglicanism