High-Church Definition

hīchûrch
adjective
Of or relating to a group in the Anglican Church that stresses the historical continuity of the church and favors established liturgies and forms of worship.
American Heritage
noun
A conservative party of the Anglican Church that retains various practices and much of the liturgy of the Roman Catholic Church.
Webster's New World
Synonyms:
  • High Anglican Church
  • high-churchism

High-Church Sentence Examples

  • The first of his controversial works was Three Letters to the Bishop of Bangor (1717), which were considered by friend and foe alike as one of the most powerful contributions to the Bangorian controversy on the high church side.

  • Such is the teaching of the Roman Church, accepted by the Greeks and with certain modifications by Anglicans of the High Church school, who appeal to i Tim.

  • I I) that "there may be sometimes very just and sufficient reason to allow ordination made without a bishop," or of the High Church Thorndike (apud Gibson on the Articles, ii.

  • But if he thus incurred the hostility of the High Church party among the clergy, he was admired by the laity for his strong sense, his clear and forcible reasoning, and his wide knowledge, and he remained to the last a power in the north of England.

  • Though a libertine and a free-thinker, he had championed the most bigoted and tyrannical high-church measures.

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