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Newmanite
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English
Etymology
From en Newman ite, after the prominent Tractarian John Henry Newman.
Noun
en historical originally derogatory A follower of the doctrines of John Henry Newman; hence, up to his conversion to Roman Catholicism in 1845, a member of the Oxford movement.
en 1966 w:Owen Chadwick The Victorian Church 1 240 https://archive.org/details/x-1-victorian-church/page/240/mode/1up Lord John Russell Russell told William Howley Archbishop Howley that the opposition consisted of clergy who shared Newman’s opinions, but had not the honesty to follow Newman to the Church of Rome. Howley tried vainly to correct the simple view that the remonstrants were Newmanites.
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en Anglicanism Catholicism