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ANGLICANISM
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The faith and doctrine and practice of the Anglican Church
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("Anglicanism" is a kind of...):
Protestantism (the theological system of any of the churches of western Christendom that separated from the Roman Catholic Church during the Reformation)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Anglicanism"):
Anglo-Catholicism; High Anglicanism (a doctrine and practice within the Church of England emphasizing the Catholic tradition)