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Puseyism

noun
1.
Principles of the founders of the Oxford movement as expounded in pamphlets called 'Tracts for the Times'.  Synonym: Tractarianism.





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"Puseyism" Quotes from Famous Books



... inquired, "What is Puseyism!" To which the witty canon replied: "Puseyism, sir, is inflexion and genuflexion; posture and imposture; bowing to the east, and curtseying ...
— The Jest Book - The Choicest Anecdotes and Sayings • Mark Lemon
... although no more than a passing word spoken in play, gives a correct indication of Browning's feeling, fully shared in by his wife, towards the religious movement in England which was altering the face of the established Church. "Puseyism" was for them a kind of child's play which unfortunately had religion for its play-ground; they viewed it with a superior smile, in which there was more of pity than of anger. Both of them, though ...
— Robert Browning • Edward Dowden


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