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Tractarianism

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





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"Tractarianism" Quotes from Famous Books



... Leyburn must have left Oxford about the beginning of the Liberal reaction, which followed Tractarianism, and in twenty years transformed ...
— Robert Elsmere • Mrs. Humphry Ward
... mind necessarily varied, if not from day to day, at least at longer intervals. At the close of 1846 came the troubles at St. Saviour's, Leeds, a stronghold of the section peculiarly under Dr. Pusey's influence, which encountered the opposition of the old Tractarianism, or rather Church-of-Englandism of Dr. Hook. They ended in some important conversions, but, as affecting Mr. Hope, seem scarcely to require to be dwelt on. In May 1847 I find him exerting himself in favour of Mr. Gladstone's candidature ...
— Memoirs of James Robert Hope-Scott, Volume 2 • Robert Ornsby


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