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