regalismn.
/ˈriːɡl̩ɪz(ə)m/, /ˈriːɡəlɪz(ə)m/, U.S. /ˈriɡəˌlɪz(ə)m/ 1. Monarchical government; advocacy of or support for this, royalism.
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1843 Knickerbocker Jan. 25 The memorable struggle however between autocracy and democracy..swept away regalism from the larger states of Greece.
1947 Social Forces 25 388/1 In the soil of virgin America, regalism was dissolved, liberty and commonalty took deep root and flourished.
2001 R. I. Frost in R. Butterwick Polish-Lithuanian Monarchy in European Context c.1500–1795 viii. 155 Regalism was largely confined to a small group of new men and ministers whose support for the king was based on personal ambition.
2. The doctrine of the supremacy of the monarch in ecclesiastical matters; the exercise of this supremacy. Cf. regalist n. 2.Chiefly with reference to states in post-Reformation continental Europe and spec. to Spain from the 18th cent. onwards.
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society > faith > church government > kinds of church government > Erastianism > [noun]
Erastianism1681
territorialism1851
regalism1863
Caesarism1876
Caesaro-papism1890
1863 Dublin Rev. July 28 A summary of the evils which have pressed upon the Church in Spain... At the end of the last century, Regalism, Voltaireanism, and Jansenism had taken possession of the court.
1890 Dublin Rev. Apr. 245 The clergy who had submitted to the regalism of Henry and the Protestantism of Edward.
1938 Amer. Hist. Rev. 43 623 Regalism in its historical sense was based on the premise of the confessional character of the state.
1987 M. S. Anderson Europe in Eighteenth Cent. (ed. 3) 186 The regalism, the desire to assert royal rights over the Church and Church property..had deep roots in the earlier history of Spain.
2003 N. Atkin & F. Tallett Priests, Prelates, & People ii. 79 One effect of the state's aggressive regalism was to widen the division between the upper..and the lower clergy.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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