GALLICANISM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Gallicanism mean? 

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

1. 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

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• GALLICANISM (noun)

Sense 1

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)