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Blanchardist

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Etymology

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From Blanchard +‎ -ism, after Pierre-Louis Blanchard (1758–1826), a French priest and polemicist, one of the leaders of the movement.[1]

Noun

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Blanchardist (plural Blanchardists)

  1. (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.

References

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  1. ^ Dominic Aidan Bellenger, "The Last Ditch: The French Émigré Clergy in Britain and the Concordat of 1801", in French Emigrants in Revolutionised Europe: Connected Histories and Memories (eds. Juliette Reboul & Laure Philip), page 263