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Etymology edit

Canterburian +‎ -ism

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Canterburianism (uncountable)

  1. Synonym of Laudianism
    • 1869, Hugh Miller, First Impressions of England and Its People, page 351:
      The Canterburianism of the times of Charles the First did that hapless monarch much harm.
    • 1968, Edward Clowes Chorley, Walter Herbert Stowe, Lawrence L. Brown, Historical Magazine of the Protestant Episcopal Church, page 109:
      An authority on the Scottish Eucharist itself, George R. Burnet, describes tendencies in the Communion office of 1637 that would have alarmed opponents of Canterburianism: Internally, the most significant contrasts to the English Prayer Book related to the Communion office.
    • 2000, David George Mullan, Scottish Puritanism, 1590-1638, page 241:
      Elsewhere he stated that Canterburianism was 'nothing but masked Popery, but a high path-royall way to Rome, a Schoole of Idolatry, Heresie, Treadhery, and mercilesse bloodshed.'