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contemplative order

noun

  1. a religious order whose members are devoted to prayer rather than works.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of contemplative order1

First recorded in 1880–85
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Example Sentences

The Reverend Mother wanted me to leave the community and enter a contemplative order.

The Franciscans were necessarily the contemplative Order intrusted with its dissemination.

The doctor is a very learned man, and a very deep thinker, but in the mystic or contemplative order.

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