holy order

Example Sentences

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So the back‑pass rule became a holy order to hoof, a proclamation from above that this was now at least half the goalkeeper's job.

From The Guardian • Jan. 22, 2011

She was the 17-year-old daughter of a nobleman of Assisi; she founded a holy order for women, was canonized after her death like Francis, whom she had loved all her life.

From Time Magazine Archive

After due study, the abbot seeing him qualified for the priesthood, obliged him to receive that holy order when he was about thirty years old.

From Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by Foxe, John

"Thousands of people left their homes, embraced the holy order and became monks, ignoring caste, and relinquishing all worldly goods except the bare necessaries of life, which they possessed and enjoyed in common."

From The Religions of Japan From the Dawn of History to the Era of Méiji by Griffis, William Elliot

Thy offering is accepted, but thou must not expect yet to enter into the austerities of our holy order.

From The Pacha of Many Tales by Marryat, Frederick