anti-Gallicanism

Noun

anti-Gallicanism (uncountable)

1. Dislike of the French.
   • It seems to me that we have here an insight into why francophobia was such a popular and such an acceptable radical attitude in this period. Present-day historians, embarrassed by or condescending about plebeian anti-gallicanism in the eighteenth century and after, forget that it was in large part...1989, Raphael Samuel, Patriotism: The Making and Unmaking of British National Identity, volume 1, page 173
   • The image of Cobbett as “Peter Porcupine,” the indefatigable advocate of Great Britain, emerged only slowly. […] Although he believed that his greatest achievement in the 1790s was to have “untied the tongue of British attachment” in America, his remarkable political influence rested on another...2009, Marcus Daniel, Scandal & Civility: Journalism and the Birth of American Democracy, →ISBN, page 199
2. Opposition to Gallicanism.
   • But Lamennais’s anti-Gallicanism is throughout an unmistakable presence: the church is not the creature of the state, which, on Gallican principles – its spurious ‘liberties’ – it could easily become.1985, Bernard M. G. Reardon, Religion in the Age of Romanticism: Studies in Early Nineteenth Century Thought, →ISBN, page 200