anti-Gallicanism

English

Alternative forms

• Antigallicanism

Etymology

anti- +‎ Gallican +‎ -ism

Noun

anti-Gallicanism (uncountable)

1. Dislike of the French.
   • 1989, Raphael Samuel, Patriotism: The Making and Unmaking of British National Identity, volume 1, page 173:

     It seems to me that we have here an insight into why francophobia was such a popular and such an acceptable radical attitude in this period. Present-day historians, embarrassed by or condescending about plebeian anti-gallicanism in the eighteenth century and after, forget that it was in large part a natural continuum of the earlier widespread acceptance of Norman yoke theories […]

   • 2009, Marcus Daniel, Scandal & Civility: Journalism and the Birth of American Democracy, →ISBN, page 199:

     The image of Cobbett as “Peter Porcupine,” the indefatigable advocate of Great Britain, emerged only slowly. […] Although he believed that his greatest achievement in the 1790s was to have “untied the tongue of British attachment” in America, his remarkable political influence rested on another achievement: his revival of a robust and deeply rooted tradition of American anti-Gallicanism.

   • 2020, D. H. Robinson, The Idea of Europe and the Origins of the American Revolution, →ISBN, page 9:

     For one, anti-French sentiment was far more changeable and circumscribed than has generally been presumed […] . Insofar as anti-Gallicanism became a feature of colonial life, it was part of a much more complex cultural politics.

2. (Christianity) Opposition to Gallicanism.
   • 1985, Bernard M. G. Reardon, Religion in the Age of Romanticism: Studies in Early Nineteenth Century Thought, →ISBN, page 200:

     But Lamennais’s anti-Gallicanism is throughout an unmistakable presence: the church is not the creature of the state, which, on Gallican principles – its spurious ‘liberties’ – it could easily become.