Word: romish
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...second trend of the 20th Century has been toward greater formality in Protestant worship. " 'Churchmanship' is no longer a monopoly of Episcopalians and Lutherans. Stately liturgy has grown commonplace in communions which, five decades ago, were vigorous in their opposition to anything which smacked of 'Romish' tendencies. I worship in a Methodist church where the service today opens with the entrance of an acolyte to light the altar candles and closes when he reappears to snuff them. There is a Unitarian church in Chicago in which a sanctuary light burns constantly...