Definition of "high-church" [high•-church]

• Of or pertaining to, or favoring, the party called the High Church, or their doctrines or policy. See High Church, under high, a. (adjective)

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• "Fred, ‘high-church’ means an Anglo-Catholic, someone who belongs to the side of Anglicanism closer to the Catholic church."
• "But there's all an unfolding pattern ... the stream which eventually prevailed was more democratic, more adventuresome, more entrepreneurial, away from the high-church thought process, not wrapped up with monarchy."
• "And usually the side that was low-church rather than high-church."