Newmanite
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Newman + -ite, after the prominent Tractarian John Henry Newman.
Noun
[edit]Newmanite (plural Newmanites)
- (historical, originally derogatory) A follower of the doctrines of John Henry Newman; hence, up to his conversion to Roman Catholicism in 1845, a member of the Oxford movement.
- 1966, Owen Chadwick, The Victorian Church, volume 1, page 240:
- Russell told Archbishop Howley that the opposition consisted of clergy who shared Newman’s opinions, but had not the honesty to follow Newman to the Church of Rome. […] Howley tried vainly to correct the simple view that the remonstrants were Newmanites.