What is "religious orders"

Usage examples of "religious orders".

They were sometimes given as mementoes to the next of kin of postulants entering the old religious orders.

The old ones seem to it an obstacle, and, instead of utilizing them, it breaks them one by one -- parliaments, provincial states, religious orders, the church, the nobles, and royalty.

I will establish an entire ministry just for the regulation of the religious orders.

Its work reduced itself down to the confiscation of clerical property, to a dissolution of the religious orders, and to a check upon the authority of the pope.

By definition, the Church Knights are members of religious orders.

And then to be awakened in the middle of the same night with the Taiko's Expulsion Edicts decreeing that all religious orders were to be out of Japan within twenty days on pain of death, never to return, and worse, that all Japanese converts throughout the land were ordered to recant at once or they would immediately be exiled or put to death.

Appearing at first as a negative character, a hypocritical monk, he, too, is later portrayed as a victim of a system that forced young men into religious orders at an early age.

In a rare flash of old rivalries among the Deryni religious orders, the Gabrilite-trained Dom Rickart and Dom Queron avowed that Camlin was acquiring an almost Michaeline militancy in his sharpness of reasoning.