High Churchman

English Alternative forms en high churchman high Churchman Etymology 17th century, originally in sense 2, with en high meaning “extreme”. Compare en High Tory. Noun High Churchmen High Churchman en Anglicanism A member of the Church of England who prioritises those aspects of Anglicanism which distinguish it from Calvinism and other Protestant denominations, and which it has in common with Catholicism, especially the authority of the priesthood and the importance of church ritual. en 1966 w:Owen Chadwick The Victorian Church 1 174 https://archive.org/details/x-1-victorian-church/page/174/mode/1up Nothing riled English high churchmen more than the phrase Protestant church. It seemed to lump them with Germans against miracle or Swiss against Trinity or ranters against decorum. en 1971 Keith Thomas (historian) Keith Thomas Religion and the Decline of Magic 571 Folio Society 2012 High Churchmen were not beyond praying for the dead; and the stories collected in Boswell's Johnson show that the possibility of ghosts was a reality in the eighteenth century for many educated men […]. en obsolete An Anglican opponent of religious toleration; a Tory. en 1688 Some Reasons to Move Protestant Dissenters To be for the taking off Penal Laws, yea and Tests too https://www.proquest.com/eebo/docview/2240933798/12618788 5 The same Noise that is now made against the taking off the Tests, will then be made against a Repeal of Penal Laws. Whoever will consult the various Methods these high Churchmen have used to Cajole and Abuse you, will see cause to conclude, That you cannot run a greater hazard, than to put any Trust or Confidence in them. Antonyms en Low Churchman Coordinate terms en Broad Churchman Derived terms en high church References High Churchman n https://www.oed.com/dictionary/high-churchman_n