discalced

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In a harsh private letter to Father Felipe Sainz de Baranda, superior of the female and male Discalced Carmelites, the Cardinal indicated that Rome would side with the traditionalist minority in the new constitution.

From Time Magazine Archive

Discalced Carmelite Friar William McNamara also understands the lure of the East.

From Time Magazine Archive

Thus it was no routine matter last week when the Vatican confirmed that it is usurping this traditional prerogative and writing a new constitution for the Discalced* Carmelite nuns.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Discalced Nuns are foremost in their efforts to spread this devotion.

From Donahoe's Magazine, Volume 15, No. 2, February 1886 by Various

Discalced, dis-kalsd′, adj. without shoes, barefooted, a term for a branch of the Carmelite order.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various