Definition of Tractarian in English:
Tractarian
noun & adjectivetrakˈtɛːrɪəntrækˈtɛriən
See Tractarianism
Example sentencesExamples
- Beauty and reverence, we are told, were virtually banished from Anglicanism until the Tractarians arrived on the scene.
- Maria resisted convention by joining an Anglican sisterhood, and Christina, who never married, became the finest poet of the Tractarian movement.
- Newman becomes an outstanding figure of his century, first as an Anglican and leader of the Oxford Movement or Tractarians, and then, famously, as a Catholic.
- Studies over the past ten years of the older High Churchmen, the Tractarians, and the Evangelicals have shown the complexity of the crosscurrents within Anglicanism.
- The final chapter - on the missionary outreach of Anglicans, which was strongly influenced by the Tractarians - includes information with which I was not familiar.
Definition of Tractarian in US English:
Tractarian
noun & adjectivetrækˈtɛriəntrakˈterēən
See Tractarianism
Example sentencesExamples
- Studies over the past ten years of the older High Churchmen, the Tractarians, and the Evangelicals have shown the complexity of the crosscurrents within Anglicanism.
- Maria resisted convention by joining an Anglican sisterhood, and Christina, who never married, became the finest poet of the Tractarian movement.
- Beauty and reverence, we are told, were virtually banished from Anglicanism until the Tractarians arrived on the scene.
- The final chapter - on the missionary outreach of Anglicans, which was strongly influenced by the Tractarians - includes information with which I was not familiar.
- Newman becomes an outstanding figure of his century, first as an Anglican and leader of the Oxford Movement or Tractarians, and then, famously, as a Catholic.