anti-Gallicanism
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anti-Gallicanism
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From anti- + Gallican + -ism.
noun Antigallicanism
- Dislike of the French. It seems to me that we have here an insight into why francophobia was such a popular and such an acceptable radical attitude in this period. Present-day historians, embarrassed by or condescending about plebeian anti-gallicanism in the eighteenth century and after, forget that it was in large part a
- Opposition to Gallicanism. But Lamennais’s anti-Gallicanism is throughout an unmistakable presence: the church is not the creature of the state, which, on Gallican principles – its spurious ‘liberties’ – it could easily become.
Talk about this word "anti-Gallicanism." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/anti-gallicanism. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. anti-Gallicanism. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/anti-gallicanism "anti-Gallicanism." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/anti-gallicanism.Cite this
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title = {anti-Gallicanism},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
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