Act of Uniformity

noun

, English History.

1. any of the three statutes (1549, 1559, 1662) regulating public worship services in the Anglican Church, especially the act of 1662 requiring the use of the Book of Common Prayer.

Example Sentences

The Act of Uniformity in 1662 had formalized the Church of England and limited the rights of Catholics to worship publicly or stand for political office, but it was the intellectual movement prioritizing reason over superstition that helped relegate it to a relic of less evolved times.

From Salon

In 1662, Ray resigned his college fellowship, rather than subscribe to the Act of Uniformity passed by Parliament to fortify Charles II’s newly restored monarchy.

From Nature

He had refused to acknowledge the 1662 Act of Uniformity, which made it compulsory to use the Book of Common Prayer, introduced by Charles II, in religious services.

From BBC

He was the son of Philip Henry, who had, two months earlier, been ejected by the Act of Uniformity.

From Project Gutenberg

He thoroughly approved of such lectures, and had advocated them in a charge recently delivered, but he believed that they were not strictly in accordance with the Act of Uniformity, so that he felt it impossible to support me, while at the same time he did not at all wish to have the responsibility of stopping me. 

From Project Gutenberg