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Entry 1 sense Webster, 1913

Gallicanism

· Gal·li·can·ism · IPA
01 n. The principles, tendencies, or action of those, within the Roman Catholic Church in France, who (esp. in 1682) sought to restrict the papal…
  1. 1.
    The principles, tendencies, or action of those, within the Roman Catholic Church in France, who (esp. in 1682) sought to restrict the papal authority in that country and increase the power of the national church.