ANGLICANISM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Anglicanism mean? 

• ANGLICANISM (noun)
  The noun ANGLICANISM has 1 sense:

1. the faith and doctrine and practice of the Anglican Church

  Familiarity information: ANGLICANISM used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ANGLICANISM (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)