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  • O.S.B.
    O.S.B.
    abbreviation
    Order of St. Benedict (Benedictine).
  • OSB
    OSB
    abbreviation
    Order of Saint Benedict

O.S.B.

American  

abbreviation

  1. Order of St. Benedict (Benedictine).


OSB British  

abbreviation

  1. Order of Saint Benedict

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Rev. Alban Boultwood, O.S.B., and handed him a copy of the Holy Rule of St. Benedict as a reminder of an abbot's responsibilities.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Rev. Dom Basil Matthews, O.S.B., reputedly the first of his race to be ordained a Benedictine priest, had been invited by the Roman Catholic diocese to further its drive for interracial amity.

From Time Magazine Archive

Rev. Adam F. Hunkler, O.S.B., self-taught Catholic priest, played the five-string finger banjo on the same program with that maestro known to all Hawaiian guitarists, Sophocles Papas.

From Time Magazine Archive

Manners, O.S.B., gave me the push pretty quick.

From Sinister Street, vol. 1 by MacKenzie, Compton

These pages were written with the encouragement of Dom Hildebrand Maple, O.S.B., and were sent to him later at his own request.

From None Other Gods by Benson, Robert Hugh

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