High Churchmann.

Brit.

/ˌhʌɪ ˈtʃəːtʃmən/, U.S.

/ˌhaɪ ˈtʃərtʃmən/

Inflections: Plural High Churchmen.

Forms: also with lower-case initials.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: high adj., churchman n.

Etymology: < high adj. + churchman n. (compare high adj. 13).

Now chiefly historical.

1. A (male) member of the Anglican communion who gives high importance to ritual, priestly authority, the Sacraments, and historical continuity with Catholicism; a member of the High Church; (in later use) an Anglo-Catholic. Cf. later Low Churchman n.Broad-Churchman n..Originally applied in the late 17th and early 18th centuries to those who opposed the toleration of differences in church polity and Christian practice, and demanded strict enforcement of the laws against Catholic and Protestant dissenters as well as the passing of such additional measures as the Occasional Conformity Act of 1711. With these opinions were then associated the doctrine of the divine right of kings (of the House of Stuart), and the duty of non-resistance (non-resistance n. 1). The epithet was originally derogatory, and more or less synonymous with Tory (cf. high Tory n. 2, high-flyer n. 4a).From 1833, the name was increasingly given to those Anglicans, particularly the Tractarians (see tract n.¹ 3b) and members of the Oxford Movement, whose ecclesiastical principles inclined toward the theology and ritual of pre-Reformation times.

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society > faith > sect > Christianity > Protestantism > Anglicanism > High Church > [noun] > person

High Churchman1679

high-flyer1680

Laudian1710

Sacheverellite1710

Laudist1730

High-Churchite1833

Anglo-Catholic1838

High-Churchist1839

altitudinarian1844

society > faith > sect > Christianity > Protestantism > Anglicanism > Tractarianism > [noun] > person

High Churchman1679

transitionist1823

Tractite1834

Oxfordist1836

Newmanite1837

Puseyite1838

tractarian1839

Puseyist1841

tractator1842

1679 J. D. Word Without Doors 1 It had been my misfortune to have had a very high Church-man for my Tutor, who had endeavoured..to Debauch me with such Principles as would enslave my Mind to their Hierarchy, and the Monarchical part of the Government.

1679 W. Penn Addr. Protestants ii. sig. Z2 I am not unacquainted with the great Objection that is made by Roman Catholicks and some Protestants too, High Church-men perhaps, that Love the Treason, but hate the Traytor.

1705 J. Evelyn Diary (1955) V. 612 The Crafty Whig-party..in opposition to the High Churchmen which was another distinction of a party, from the Low church-men.

1743 J. Wesley Jrnl. 18 June in Extract J. Wesley's Jrnl. 1741–3 (1749) 99 Neither should I have wonder'd, if..the zealous high-churchmen had rose, and cut all that were call'd Methodists in pieces.

1791 J. Boswell Life Johnson anno 1709 I. 8 He was a zealous high-churchman and royalist, and retained his attachment to the unfortunate house of Stuart.

1839 Tracts for Times II. No. 47. 4 You at least have not called me an Arminian, or a high Churchman, or a Borderer,..and so dismissed me.

1890 T. F. Tout in F. Y. Powell et al. Hist. Eng. III. iii. x. vi. 234 The Bennett judgment..in 1870 definitely permitted the teaching of the most distinctive doctrine of the new High Churchmen.

1920 H. J. Laski Polit. Thought in Eng. iii. 64 The dislike of all High Churchmen for William [III]; with their consequent unwillingness to admit the full meaning of his ecclesiastical supremacy.

1940 Life 2 Sept. 80/2 The pastor was a High-churchman who was devoted to ritual and canonicals and there were masses.

2009 B. E. Daly in I. Ker & T. Merrigan Cambr. Compan. J. H. Newman ii. 33 The High Churchmen of the 1830s..saw the Church as founded on serious continuity with the doctrines and structures of primitive Christianity, guaranteed by state patronage.

2. A (male) member of the Church of Scotland holding views analogous to those of the Anglican High Church (except on the subject of episcopy). Occasionally also: a member of another non-Anglican denomination holding similar views.

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1836 J. Collinson Let. to A. C. Dick 10 It will be worth while to note the same historian's remark on the conduct of these Scottish High Churchmen in another particular.

1868 N. Brit. Rev. June 225/1 High Churchmen at the Cape indignantly protest, as High Churchmen in the north did a quarter of a century ago, against the unwelcome verdict of the Civil Courts.

1926 W. Montgomery tr. F. Heiler Spirit of Worship 93 A remarkable Lutheran high-churchman, who knew how to give full value to the whole treasure of the Lutheran liturgy—Wilhelm Lohe.

2008 N. Yates Liturg. Space iii. 60 The observation of the liturgical calendar, reintroduced by high churchmen in the Church of Scotland in the 1870s, was still negligible.

Derivatives

High ˈChurchmanship n. the doctrine, principles, or practice of High Churchmen; = High Churchism n. at High Church n. and adj. Derivatives.

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society > faith > sect > Christianity > Protestantism > Anglicanism > High Church > [noun]

High Church1693

high flying1703

High-Churchship1720

High Churchism1765

High Churchmanship1818

High-Churchmanism1827

Laudisma1834

Anglo-Catholicism1838

Canterburianism1847

Laudianism1872

1818 J. Thomas Church her own Enemy vii. 64 The high-churchmanship and egregious folly of that unhappy Monarch's advisers.

1882 Abp. Tait in Macmillan's Mag. 46 417 So powerfully had the early teaching of Newman represented English High Churchmanship as the best barrier against the Church of Rome.

1920 A. L. Cross Shorter Hist. Eng. & Greater Brit. liii. 730 Such ritualism has become a usual though not invariable accompaniment of High Churchmanship.

2010 C. Hollett Shouting, Embracing, & Dancing ii. 50 The old High Churchmanship of the eighteenth century was an unfeeling religion of duty.

† High-ˈChurchmanism n. Obsolete rare = High Churchism n. at High Church n. and adj. Derivatives.

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