O.S.F.

American  

abbreviation

1. Order of St. Francis (Franciscan).

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OSF British  

abbreviation

1. Order of Saint Francis

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Example Sentences

Last April, O.S.F. decided to move the office, a regional hub for its grant-making activities for the past twenty years, to Berlin.

From The New Yorker • Jan. 7, 2019

A few minutes later came an unexpected reminder of what he and the O.S.F. are up against.

From New York Times • Jul. 17, 2018

In the early 1990s, the O.S.F. gave $5 million to a program that offered free breakfasts to Hungarian schoolchildren.

From New York Times • Jul. 17, 2018

Leonard Benardo, the vice president of the O.S.F., made a similar observation.

From New York Times • Jul. 17, 2018

Among the dead was Fray Hernando de Moraga, O.S.F., who had come to Spain some time before to ask aid for the Philippine colony and the missions there.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 19 of 55 1620-1621 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century. by Robertson, James Alexander