sacred order

noun

1. Roman Catholic Church. major order.

Word History and Origins

Origin of sacred order¹

First recorded in 1720–30

Example Sentences

Scourges, he says, “are killers who act, momentarily, as agents freed from sacred order and its commanding truths.”

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In the English war, the first two classes availed not, and then came the turn of the sacred order.

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Sirach's proverbs are directed against the possibility of a revolution in the sacred order.

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Don't be moved by declamations against ecclesiastical history, as if that could blacken the sacred order.'

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You have brought insult upon our sacred order, and have caused bold and impious defiance of our high prerogative.

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The songs in vogue then were principally of the sacred order.

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