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plural antidisestablishmentarians
One who believes that the Church of England should retain its formal constitutional relationship with the state. quotations examples
But the Free Kirk of the north of Scotland are strong anti-Disestablishmentarians. A meeting for Disestablishment can't be got up, even by popular Ministers.
1892, letter of Edward White Benson, quoted in James Anderson Carr, The life-work of Edward White Benson, D.D., sometime Archbishop of Canterbury. London: Elliot Stock, 1898.
A correspondent gives "nonintercommunicability" as the longest word In the English language. While reading the life of Archbishop Benson I came across the following extract from his diary for September, 1892 (page 411): "But the free kirk of the north of Scotland are strong antidisestablishmentarians"—ten syllables, twenty-six letters!
1900 letter to Pall Mall Gazette
comparative more antidisestablishmentarian, superlative most antidisestablishmentarian
Of or relating to the belief that the Church of England should retain its formal constitutional relationship with the state. examples