Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
Observant , 4. - Of or pertaining to the Franciscan friars called Observants.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (R. C. Ch.) One of a branch of the Order of Franciscans, who profess to adhere more strictly than the Conventuals to the intention of the founder, especially as to poverty; -- called also
Observants .
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Examples
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The difficulties between the observantine and reformed branches of the Augustinian order are recounted with some fulness.
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The orders also confirmed the documents, especially the observantine Augustinians, in which they confuted the preceding adverse testimonies.
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There they had had the first intelligence of the gospel, which the observantine Augustinians had tried to communicate to them.
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