Anti-gallicanism
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Dislike of the French. uncountable
"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 natural continuum of the earlier widespread acceptance of Norman yoke theories […]"
- 2 Opposition to Gallicanism. uncountable
"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."
Antonyms
All antonymsExample
More examples"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 natural continuum of the earlier widespread acceptance of Norman yoke theories […]"
Etymology
From anti- + Gallican + -ism.
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