| English noun: Holy Order | 
| 1. | Holy Order (state) (usually plural) the status or rank or office of a Christian clergyman in an ecclesiastical hierarchy | 
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 | Samples | Theologians still disagree over whether `bishop' should or should not be a separate Order. 
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 | Synonyms | Order | 
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 | Broader (hypernym) | position, status | 
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 | Narrower (hyponym) | acolyte, anagnost, deacon, doorkeeper, exorcist, lector, ostiarius, ostiary, priest, reader, subdeacon | 
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| 2. | holy order (act) the sacrament of ordination | 
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 | Broader (hypernym) | sacrament | 
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 | Part holonym | ordinance, ordination | 
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