Anglicanism

From Anglican + -ism.

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Anglicanism (usually uncountable, plural Anglicanisms)

1. The beliefs and practices of the Anglican Church.

   Hypernyms: Protestantism < Christianity < religion

   Hyponyms: Church-of-Englandism, Episcopalianism

   • 1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 448:

     "What do you want? Nineteenth-century rationalism, Voltairian deism? We're living in a religious age, you know. I suppose Anglicanism might be a solution."

2. (dated) Attachment to England or English institutions.

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