anglicanize

Example Sentences

• "The Count resumed by observing that the Committee had done, and might still do, great good, but that we must not attempt to Anglicanize Greece. I replied that we rather wished to Americanize her."
• "Although in remote lineage he may have been Scotch, he had become thoroughly Anglicanized, and he disclosed English rather than Scottish traits."
• "A report which we strongly suspect has been manufactured by a mock-Orthodox Editor in New-York […] is going the rounds of the Calvinistic prints in town and country. The amount of it is, that about four hundred of the French Clergy have separated themselves from the Roman Catholic Church, and have determined to anglicanize themselves, by taking wives and thus living rather in imitation of a mis-named Reformation, than of the Apostles and their legitimate successors."
• "In your attitude towards High Churchmen you are ignoring the breadth and comprehensiveness of the Church of England. […] The Church of England is neither Catholic merely nor Protestant merely, it is both. Some who greatly value the Catholic heritage of this Church, and who do not so value its Protestant heritage, are tempted, we may say, to over-Anglicanize. Others, who greatly value the Protestant heritage, of the Church, and who do not so value its Catholic heritage, are tempted, we may say, to under-Anglicanize."
• "But events were about to happen which were destined to interrupt for some years James’ policy of seeking to strengthen his position by Anglicanising the Scottish Church."