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GALLICANISM
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I. (noun)
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Meaning:
A religious movement originating among the French Roman Catholic clergy that favored the restriction of papal control and the achievement by each nation of individual administrative autonomy of the church
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("Gallicanism" is a kind of...):
religious movement (a movement intended to bring about religious reforms)
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