contemplative order

noun

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of contemplative order¹

First recorded in 1880–85

Example Sentences

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

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

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

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