broad church
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.44 in modern English
24
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A wide scope of political or religious philosophies and ideas.
Australian usage; New Zealand usage; British usage
name
Alternative letter-case form of Broad Church.
name
The movement to latitudinarian churchmanship in the Church of England; collectively, those people engaged in the movement.
Example Sentences
- "The Liberal party in Australia is often described as being a broad church, encompassing conservatives and radicals, wets and dries."
- "If representation and recruitment is an objective, self-styled mavericks like Kelly and his Queensland sidekick George Christensen have some utility. This duo operates like an extended wink and a nudge; they tell voters the Coalition is a broad enough church to be a home for fringe views."
- "Hampden contributed nothing to the theology of his time and specifically rejected the Broad Church in the 1860s."
- "The first Broad Church, in her view, included Coleridge, Arnold, Kingsley, and Maurice, and was spiritual in the same way as the Evangelicals."
- "Mid-nineteenth-century Anglican Broad Church thinkers included such figures as FD Maurice, AC Tait, AP Stanley, Benjamin Jowett, and Charles Kingsley. There was also a Broad Church movement (sometimes referred to as ‘liberal evangelical’) in Scotland,which included James Robertson, John Tulloch, John Caird and Norman MacLeod."
Usage
- Australian usage
- New Zealand usage
- British usage