Anglo-Catholic
Anglo-Catholic noun: a member of the Anglican Church whose practices emphasise continuity with Catholic tradition.
Noun (1)
Anglo-Catholic (plural Anglo-Catholics)
- A member of the Anglican Church whose practices emphasise continuity with Catholic tradition.
Adjective
Anglo-Catholic (comparative more Anglo-Catholic, superlative most Anglo-Catholic)
- Pertaining to or characteristic of Anglo-Catholicism.
- Ash-Wednesday is, in Spurr’s authoritative assessment, Eliot’s most Anglo-Catholic poem.2014, John Whittier-Ferguson, Mortality and Form in Late Modernist Literature, →ISBN, page 216, n. 1
Noun (2) capitalized: Anglo-catholic
Anglo-catholic (plural Anglo-catholics)
- Alternative letter-case form of Anglo-Catholic.
- That’s why self-consciously Anglo-catholic churches which are a mile high up the paschal candle can do reasonably well in the current climate.2016 May 2, Kelvin Holdsworth, “The Seven Actual Marks of Mission”, in Thurible.net
Forms of Anglo-Catholic
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | Anglo-Catholics |
| plural | Anglo-catholics |
| Adjective | |
| comparative | more Anglo-Catholic |
| superlative | most Anglo-Catholic |
Origin of Anglo-Catholic
From Anglo- + Catholic.
Questions about Anglo-Catholic
- What does Anglo-Catholic mean?
- Anglo-Catholic means a member of the Anglican Church whose practices emphasise continuity with Catholic tradition.
- What part of speech is Anglo-Catholic?
- Anglo-Catholic can be a noun or an adjective.
- What is the plural of Anglo-Catholic?
- The plural of Anglo-Catholic is Anglo-Catholics.
Words near Anglo-Catholic in the dictionary
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