Holy Orders
Example Sentences
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A bitter man, George Tennyson had been disinherited by his own father and forced into holy orders.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 20, 2026
“His vocation is the holy orders in which he promised obedience, he vowed obedience to his bishop and his bishop’s successors,” she said.
From Washington Times • Dec. 22, 2022
The Vatican is not traditionally known as a hotbed of cricketing talent, so a team in holy orders shouldn't prove too much for a touring XI of authors from the UK, should it?
From BBC • May 2, 2015
It's not holy orders, nor is it being a Mafia "made man".
From Economist • Nov. 26, 2012
For the rest of his life he was thoroughly cosmopolitan, travelling widely, living for twenty years in Weimar, and for six years near Rome, where he took holy orders.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
