holy order
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So the back‑pass rule became a holy order to hoof, a proclamation from above that this was now at least half the goalkeeper's job.
From The Guardian • Jan. 22, 2011
She was the 17-year-old daughter of a nobleman of Assisi; she founded a holy order for women, was canonized after her death like Francis, whom she had loved all her life.
From Time Magazine Archive
He fancies Christianity to be a holy order of perfection, altogether without infirmity, a perfection as in heaven among the angels.
From Epistle Sermons, Vol. II Epiphany, Easter and Pentecost by Lenker, John Nicholas
Ether 12:10 10 Behold it was by faith that they of old were called after the holy order of God.
From The Book of Mormon by Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
It voiced the subsequent agonized outpourings of his soul when the holy order of priesthood was conferred upon him.
From Carmen Ariza by Stocking, Charles Francis
