Gallicanism

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Gallicanism \Gal"li*can*ism\, n.
     The principles, tendencies, or action of those, within the
     Roman Catholic Church in France, who (esp. in 1682) sought to
     restrict the papal authority in that country and increase the
     power of the national church. --Schaff-Herzog Encyc.
     [1913 Webster]