Antidisestablishmentarian

adj, noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    One who believes that the Church of England should retain its formal constitutional relationship with the state.

    "1892, letter of Edward White Benson, quoted in James Anderson Carr, The life-work of Edward White Benson, D.D., sometime Archbishop of Canterbury. London: Elliot Stock, 1898. But the Free Kirk of the north of Scotland are strong anti-Disestablishmentarians. A meeting for Disestablishment can't be got up, even by popular Ministers."

Adjective
  1. 1
    Of or relating to the belief that the Church of England should retain its formal constitutional relationship with the state.

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"Tom is an antidisestablishmentarian."

Etymology

From anti- + disestablishment + -arian.

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