Assumptionist
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of Assumptionist
First recorded in 1895–1900; Assumption (in the ecclesiastical sense) + -ist
Example Sentences
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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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Although Assumption is a classical college, its regular instructors are all Catholic priests and Assumptionist Fathers.
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The Assumptionist Fathers swore to combat irreligion in Europe, to missionize in the East.
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In 1900, republican France accused the Assumptionist Fathers of royalist intrigues.
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There followed Sister Marguérite Emilie, an Assumptionist, aged thirty-nine, a brisk, brown-faced, tall woman, in her religious habit.
From Lourdes by Benson, Robert Hugh
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