blanchardism
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
22
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
2
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A Catholic schism that emerged in the early 19th century among exiled French clergy who, having fled to England after the French Revolution, opposed the Concordat of 1801, an agreement between Napoleon Bonaparte and Pope Pius VII that sought national reconciliation between the revolutionaries and the Church.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "In these he concurs with the Irish Bishops in their condemnation of Blanchardism, […]"
- "The schism of the Petite Eglise, or Blanchardism as it was called in England, was a terrible blow to him."
- "By the time of the Restoration most of the French had gone, and those who had not were often infirm or tainted with Blanchardism."
Etymology
From Blanchard + -ism, after Pierre-Louis Blanchard (1758–1826), a French priest and polemicist, one of the leaders of the movement.