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Low Churchman

noun

  1. a person who advocates or follows Low Church practices.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of Low Churchman1

First recorded in 1695–1705
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Example Sentences

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Now it is a high churchman who gives a picture of this "Niobe of nations," tinted couleur de rose; now a low churchman, who talks of nothing but abominations of a deeper dye; now some classical student tells how— "The Goth, the Christian, time, war, flood, and fire Have dealt upon the seven hill'd city's pride;" now some worshipper of art, who unfolds the treasures garnered within its walls; now a politician loud in his praises of Young Italy, or his condemnation of foreign interference.

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The Ritualist and Roman Catholic might unite together; but these would not stand shoulder to shoulder with the Wesleyan, Baptist, and Low Churchman.

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Now there happened to be at St. Giles's a curate who was a Low Churchman.

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Barnham was so far, and the vicar a Low Churchman, and not to her taste.

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Low Churchman Fisher himself preferred another man, and one British publisher summed up: "He went to a second-rate public school, got a second at university, was an indifferent Archbishop of York, and therefore he'll make a perfect Canterbury."

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