[f. prec. + -ISM.]
1. Adherence to the doctrine and discipline of the reformed Church of England (and other churches in communion therewith), as the genuine representative of the Catholic Church.
1846. Kingsley, Lett. & Mem., I. 143. Decent Anglicanism … having become the majority is now quite Conservative.
1856. Froude, Hist. Eng., I. 336. The famous theory of high church Anglicanism—the notion that the English Church could and should subsist as a separate communion, independent of foreign control, self-governed, self-organized, and at the same time adhering without variation to catholic doctrine.
1864. J. H. Newman, Apol., 231. Anglicanism claimed to hold that the Church of England was nothing else than a continuation in this country … of that one Church of which in old times Athanasius and Augustine were members.
1865. Lecky, Rational. (1878), II. 325. Anglicanism has always been singularly free from the taint of fanaticism.
