anti-Gallicanism

noun

Dislike of the French.

Meanings

nounanti-Gallicanism (uncountable)

alternative Antigallicanism

  1. uncountableDislike of the French.

    For one, anti-French sentiment was far more changeable and circumscribed than has generally been presumed […]. Insofar as anti-Gallicanism became a feature of colonial life, it was part of a much more complex cultural politics.

    2020, D. H. Robinson, The Idea of Europe and the Origins of the American Revolution, →ISBN, page 9
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    It seems to me that we have here an insight into why francophobia was such a popular and such an acceptable radical attitude in this period. Present-day historians, embarrassed by or condescending about plebeian anti-gallicanism in the eighteenth century and after, forget that it was in large part a natural continuum of the earlier widespread acceptance of Norman yoke theories […]

    1989, Raphael Samuel, Patriotism: The Making and Unmaking of British National Identity, volume 1, page 173

    The image of Cobbett as “Peter Porcupine,” the indefatigable advocate of Great Britain, emerged only slowly. […] Although he believed that his greatest achievement in the 1790s was to have “untied the tongue of British attachment” in America, his remarkable political influence rested on another achievement: his revival of a robust and deeply rooted tradition of American anti-Gallicanism.

    2009, Marcus Daniel, Scandal & Civility: Journalism and the Birth of American Democracy, →ISBN, page 199
  2. uncountableChristianityOpposition to Gallicanism.

    But Lamennais’s anti-Gallicanism is throughout an unmistakable presence: the church is not the creature of the state, which, on Gallican principles – its spurious ‘liberties’ – it could easily become.

    1985, Bernard M. G. Reardon, Religion in the Age of Romanticism: Studies in Early Nineteenth Century Thought, →ISBN, page 200

Origin

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