Blanchardist
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Blanchard + -ism, after Pierre-Louis Blanchard (1758–1826), a French priest and polemicist, one of the leaders of the movement.[1]
Noun
[edit]Blanchardist (plural Blanchardists)
- (Christianity, historical) A supporter of Blanchardism.
- 1824, Francis Plowden, Human Subordination[1], page 99:
- From these acts of the English vicars apostolic, the Blanchardists appealed (irregularly, it is allowed) to the Irish prelates convened in synod at Tullow.
- 1905, Bernard Ward, Catholic London a Century Ago[2], page 57:
- Besides the Blanchardists, there remained in England a considerable number of orthodox French priests and laymen, and their presence had a great influence on the Catholic Church in this country, far greater than is represented by the half-dozen churches or missions founded by a few of them.
- 1984, Joan Connell, The Roman Catholic Church in England, 1780-1850: A Study in Internal Politics[3], page 109:
- That was not the method of Milner, however, who agitated for the most public denunciations of the Blanchardists.