Knights of Malta

American  

noun

1. the order of Hospitalers.

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Example Sentences

After all, the Sacred Military Constantinian Order of St. George is not comparable to more familiar fraternal societies like the Knights of Columbus, or Catholic lay orders like the Knights of Malta.

From Slate

After Francis removed him from that position in 2014, he made Burke the cardinal patron of the Knights of Malta, a prestigious but limited role.

From Seattle Times

Noel supposedly has the documentation to prove it: a fat family history painstakingly compiled so that an earlier Marquis de Negroni could be accepted into — no kidding — the Knights of Malta.

From Seattle Times

A stack that is much too large, and I keep saying I’m going to draw down, and is a bit eclectic: “Rise and Kill First,” by Ronen Bergman, on Israel’s targeted-killing program; “The Order,” by Daniel Silva; “AI Superpowers,” by Kai-Fu Lee, about the insidious gray war between China and the United States for domination of artificial intelligence; a book on long-range precision shooting; “The Shield and the Sword,” by Ernle Bradford, about the Knights of Malta; and two advanced reader copies from other authors.

From New York Times

The reader, while happily distracted by remodeling minutiae or, say, a vivid description of a meeting of the Knights of Malta, “full of backslapping, heavy teasing and faces dilated with drink-broken capillaries,” will blithely stumble upon one of White’s booby-traps and kablooey: A shocking new plot point explodes, vaulting the story forward, soaring over what might typically have been endless pages of setup, along with the sweaty palms, welling tears and lurching hearts employed to “show” a character’s emotional state.

From New York Times