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Low-church   Listen
adjective
Low-church  adj.  Not placing a high estimate on ecclesiastical organizations or forms; applied especially to Episcopalians, and opposed to high-church. See High Church, under High.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Low-church" Quotes from Famous Books



... light from two candles in the row of silver candlesticks on the tall mantel was all he wanted until he began to read. He was ready to do that later. A church journal, with an account of a quarrel between a High-Church clergyman and his Low-Church Bishop, was within reach of his hand, and the "Three Guardsmen," in a ragged yellow cover, was astride his knee, but now he was content to sit and think. He made a prosperous and comfortable figure, ...
— John Ward, Preacher • Margaret Deland

... said Valentine abruptly. Mr. Craik was not sure whether his evident shrinking was due to some low-church scruple as to any dedication at all, or whether the name of the sainted Elizabeth had startled him by reminding him of self-renunciation and a self-denial even to the death, of all that in this world we love and long for. This Elizabeth, his grandmother, might ...
— Fated to Be Free • Jean Ingelow



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