Antidisestablishmentarian vs. Antidisestablishmentarianism — What's the Difference?

One who believes that the Church of England should retain its formal constitutional relationship with the state.

Antidisestablishmentarianism ( (listen), US also (listen)) is a position that advocates that a state Church (the "established church") should continue to receive government patronage, rather than be disestablished.In 19th-century Britain, it developed as a political movement in opposition to disestablishmentarianism, the Liberal Party's efforts to disestablish or remove the Church of England as the official state church of England, Ireland, and Wales. The Church's status has been maintained in England, but in Ireland, the Anglican Church of Ireland was disestablished in 1871.

Of or relating to the belief that the Church of England should retain its formal constitutional relationship with the state.

A political philosophy opposed to the separation of a religious group (church) and a government (state), especially the belief held by those in 19th-century England opposed to separating the Anglican church from the civil government or to refer to separation of church and state.

The doctrine or political position that opposes the withdrawal of state recognition of an established church; - used especially concerning the Anglican Church in England. Opposed to disestablishmentarianism.