Meanings
plural Blanchardists
- historicalChristianityA supporter of Blanchardism.
That was not the method of Milner, however, who agitated for the most public denunciations of the Blanchardists.
1984, Joan Connell, The Roman Catholic Church in England, 1780-1850: A Study in Internal Politics, page 1092 more examples
From these acts of the English vicars apostolic, the Blanchardists appealed (irregularly, it is allowed) to the Irish prelates convened in synod at Tullow.
1824, Francis Plowden, Human Subordination, page 99Besides 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.
1905, Bernard Ward, Catholic London a Century Ago, page 57
Origin
From Blanchard + -ism, after Pierre-Louis Blanchard (1758–1826), a French priest and polemicist, one of the leaders of the movement.
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