Anglicanism

English

The Flag of the Anglican Communion is a symbol of Anglicanism worldwide.

Etymology

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English Anglican

Proto-Indo-European *-id-

Proto-Indo-European *-yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti

Proto-Hellenic *-íd͏̌d͏̌ō

Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)

Proto-Indo-European *-mos

Proto-Indo-European *-mós

Ancient Greek -μός (-mós)

Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)der.

English -ism

English Anglicanism

From Anglican + -ism.

Pronunciation

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Noun

Anglicanism (usually uncountable, plural Anglicanisms)

1. The beliefs and practices of the Anglican Church.

   Hypernyms: Protestantism < Christianity < religion

   Hyponyms: Church-of-Englandism, Episcopalianism

   • 1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 448:

     "What do you want? Nineteenth-century rationalism, Voltairian deism? We're living in a religious age, you know. I suppose Anglicanism might be a solution."

2. (dated) Attachment to England or English institutions.

Related terms

• Anglican
• anglicism, Anglicism

Translations

beliefs and practices of the Anglican Church

• Armenian: անգլիկանութիւն (anglikanutʻiwn)
• Basque: anglikanismo
• Belarusian: англіка́нства n (anhlikánstva)
• Bulgarian: англиканство n (anglikanstvo)
• Catalan: anglicanisme m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 聖公宗 / 圣公宗 (shènggōngzōng), 聖公會 / 圣公会 (zh) (shènggōnghuì)

• Czech: anglikánství n
• Danish: anglikanisme c
• Dutch: anglicanisme (nl) n
• Esperanto: anglikanismo
• Finnish: anglikaanisuus
• French: anglicanisme (fr) m
• Georgian: ანგლიკანიზმი (angliḳanizmi)
• German: Anglikanismus (de) m
• Greek: αγγλικανισμός (el) m (anglikanismós)
• Hungarian: anglikanizmus (hu)
• Indonesian: Anglikanisme
• Irish: Anglacánachas m
• Italian: anglicanesimo (it) m
• Japanese: 聖公会 (ja) (せいこうかい, seikōkai)
• Korean: 성공회 (seonggonghoe)
• Latvian: anglikānisms m
• Lithuanian: anglikonýbė f
• Norwegian: anglikanisme m
• Polish: anglikanizm (pl) m
• Portuguese: anglicanismo (pt) m
• Romanian: anglicanism (ro) n
• Russian: англика́нство (ru) n (anglikánstvo)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: англика́нство n

  Latin: anglikánstvo (sh) n

• Slovak: anglikanizmus m
• Slovene: anglikanizem m
• Spanish: anglicanismo (es) m
• Swedish: anglikanism c
• Turkish: Anglikanizm (tr)
• Ukrainian: англіка́нство (uk) n (anhlikánstvo)
• Vietnamese: Anh giáo (vi)