neo-Catholicadj.n.

1842 J. S. Mill Let. 10 Jan. in Wks. (1963) XIII. 497 Our neo-Catholic school at [Oxf]ord.

1886 J. A. Froude Oceana 179 The walls of the living rooms were covered either with fresco-paintings or pictures and engravings, all of a neo-Catholic complexion.

1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 470/1 Alarcón had appeared as a partisan of the neo-Catholic reaction.

1956 K. Clark Nude viii. 333 The neo-Catholic doctrines of his [sc. Rouault's] friend Leon Bloy, by which in the lukewarm, materialistic society of 1900, absolute degradation came closer to redemption than worldly compromise.

1979 MLN 94 267 His efforts..are thwarted by the Neo-Catholic militancy of Don Angel and his sister.

1867–71 J. A. Froude Short Stud. II. 145 The Neo-Catholics of our own day.

1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 470/1 The neo-Catholics alleged that El Escándalo was tainted with Jansenism.

1937 Dict. National Biogr. 1922–30 at Harrison. Frederic He went there [sc. to Oxford]..as something of a neo-catholic and took the Sacrament with a leaning towards belief in Transubstantiation.

1969 Amer. Hist. Rev. 75 418 Renan imbibed for two years a Cartesian-Scholastic intellectual concoction, denounced by the Neo-Catholics as rationalist.

1990 Bull. Hispanic Stud. 67 368 (notes) The captain's conservative religiosity really comes through in his next reply to Vitriolo, lumping the latter's beliefs with the Northern vice of Protestantism, as the neo-catholics were wont to do.