contemplative order

American  

noun

1. a religious order whose members are devoted to prayer rather than works.

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Etymology

Origin of contemplative order

First recorded in 1880–85

Example Sentences

Aficionados still need to come to the abbey or its cafe to get their crate, giving the contemplative order a chance to bear witness too.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 17, 2023

Sister Marie Fahy lives in St Mary's Abbey, an enclosed contemplative order of nuns in Glencairn.

From BBC • Aug. 23, 2018

Sister Sancho Herreros lived there with six other members of the contemplative order of the Visitation of Holy Mary, founded in 1610 in France.

From New York Times • May 2, 2013

When the nuns are members of a contemplative order, the outlook is bleak indeed.

From Time Magazine Archive

He had some imagination and poetic faculty of the contemplative order, but the disadvantages of his life were many.

From An Anthology of Australian Verse by Stevens, Bertram