Assumptionist
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of Assumptionist
First recorded in 1895–1900; Assumption (in the ecclesiastical sense) + -ist
Example Sentences
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Although Assumption is a classical college, its regular instructors are all Catholic priests and Assumptionist Fathers.
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Four priests served in this treaty-made capacity, all of them Assumptionist fathers, a missionary group with a special concern for the churches of the East.
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In 1900, republican France accused the Assumptionist Fathers of royalist intrigues.
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Young Father Bissonnette had looked forward to a routine departure this spring, when another Assumptionist priest was to replace him.
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One fact which shows that the spirit of the Government, which followed upon the accession of Loubet, was born for persecution, was the case of the Assumptionist Fathers.
From The War Upon Religion Being an Account of the Rise and Progress of Anti-christianism in Europe by Francis A. (Francis Aloysius) Cunningham
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