…(chiefly in the US) a movement aimed at liberating men from traditional views about their character and role in society…
…a Christian movement started in Oxford in 1833, seeking to restore traditional Catholic teachings and ceremonial within the Church of England. Its leaders were John Keble, Edward Pusey, and (until he became a Roman Catholic) John Henry Newman. It formed the basis of the present Anglo-Catholic (or High Church) tradition…
…a broad movement opposed to preparations for war, especially a movement in Britain and western Europe attempting since the 1950s to bring about a reduction in or elimination of nuclear weapons…
…a movement by two separate bodies of troops converging on the enemy…
…a literary and artistic movement which flourished in England in the 1880s, devoted to ‘art for art’s sake’ and rejecting the notion that art should have a social or moral purpose. Its chief exponents included Oscar Wilde, Max Beerbohm, Aubrey Beardsley, and others associated with the journal the Yellow Book…
…a broad movement campaigning for women’s liberation and rights…
…a fundamentalist movement within the Roman Catholic, Anglican, and other Christian Churches that emphasizes talents held to be conferred by the Holy Spirit, such as speaking in tongues and healing of the sick…
…a movement originating in the industrial areas of northern England and Scotland in the late 18th century, based on the belief that industries and commercial concerns should be owned and controlled by the people working in them, for joint economic benefit…
…a jerky motion of a person’s eyes occurring in REM sleep…
…a movement seeking restrictions on the consumption of alcohol…
…a grouping of chiefly developing countries pursuing a policy of neutrality towards the superpowers (i.e. the US and formerly the USSR) in world politics…
…an English decorative arts movement of the second half of the 19th century which sought to revive the ideal of craftsmanship in an age of increasing mechanization and mass production. William Morris was its most prominent member…
…the erratic random movement of microscopic particles in a fluid, as a result of continuous bombardment from molecules of the surrounding medium…
…a secret organization resisting authority, especially in an occupied country…
…an organization founded by the American Lutheran evangelist Frank Buchman (1878–1961) and first popularized in Oxford in the 1920s (hence until about 1938 called the Oxford Group Movement). It emphasizes personal integrity and confession of faults, cooperation, and mutual respect, especially as a basis for social transformation…
…Antiabtreibungsdemonstration, -bewegung…
