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Definition of High church
1. Noun. A group in the Anglican Church that emphasizes the Catholic tradition (especially in sacraments and rituals and obedience to church authority).
Category relationships: Church, Church Service
Generic synonyms: Religious Order, Religious Sect, Sect
Lexicographical Neighbors of High Church
Literary usage of High church
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1854)
"Reasons why the high church are the most wicked of all Men. 19. Ecclesiastical
Authority ... A Comparison between the high church and the Quakers. 33. ..."
2. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1909)
"Since his day a large liberty of opinion has been allowed and practised in the
Church of England on the question of ritual and episcopacy; the High-church ..."
3. The Contemporary Review (1892)
"THE PRESENT POSITION OF THE high church PARTY. f PHE revival of interest in
matters ecclesiastical, which has been the J_ necessary result of certain recent ..."
4. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"Froude's "Remains" were a challenge to it in one way, as the "Library of the
Fathers" was in another, and yet again the ponderous "Catenas" of high church ..."
5. New Englander and Yale Review by Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight (1889)
"high church CONGREGATIONALISM. THE term high churchman is commonly limited to
Episcopalians. This is natural, as it originated among them. ..."
6. Remains, Historical and Literary, Connected with the Palatine Counties of by Chetham Society (1845)
"But this proposition, whatever moderation it might express, was unsuccessful.
A majority, consisting of the high church Party, was unwilling to concede any ..."
7. A History of England by James Franck Bright (1880)
"Thus was formed the high church party, and thus sprang up the idea of the Divine
right of Episcopacy, which produced such fatal consequences in subsequent ..."
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