regulars

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Yet this love for the Society never led to any want of hearty appreciation of the merits of other Orders, or of the Seculars.

From Memoirs of James Robert Hope-Scott, Volume 2 by Ornsby, Robert

Law, /Jesuits and Seculars in the reign of Elizabeth/, etc.,

From History of the Catholic Church from the Renaissance to the French Revolution — Volume 2 by MacCaffrey, James

And I said to him, 'Sir, in this town, are many Clerks and Priests; of which some of them are called Religious Men, though many of them be Seculars.

From Fifteenth Century Prose and Verse by Various

The Seculars were more or less like our parochial clergy in that they were subject to no such regulation, lived and moved without restraint among the people, and in early days were not infrequently married.

From Bell's Cathedrals: Southwark Cathedral Formerly the Collegiate Church of St. Saviour, Otherwise St. Mary Overie. A Short History and Description of the Fabric, with Some Account of the College and the See by Worley, George

Seculars were the right people for daily routine and work among the poor, but for a young secular priest to become a bright, particular star was unusual and alarming.

From Great Possessions by Ward, Wilfrid, Mrs.