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Even readers who agree with the parajournalists of Women's Liberation are often embarrassed to find their positions taken with so much self-pity and self-righteousness, with such bloated excesses of tractarian rhetoric.

From Time Magazine Archive

It led up to the definitely religious school of children's books, first evangelical, then tractarian, with which we shall deal later: but was itself as a rule utilitarian—or sentimental—moral rather than directly religious.

From The English Novel by Saintsbury, George

The tractarian movement attracted Thomas's attention in a dim way, and he was amused at the frightful din made by the conversions to Romanism which accompanied that curious upheaval of medi�valism.

From The Life of Thomas Wanless, Peasant by Wilson, Alexander Johnstone

This tractarian movement was interrupted by the arrival of Mrs. Mavick.

From That Fortune by Warner, Charles Dudley

His successor, Gladstone, will bring with him the Manchester school for colleagues and supporters, a hot tractarian for chancellor, and the Bishop of Oxford for ecclesiastical adviser.

From The Life of William Ewart Gladstone (Vol 2 of 3) by Morley, John