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  • O.S.F.
    O.S.F.
    abbreviation
    Order of St. Francis (Franciscan).
  • OSF
    OSF
    abbreviation
    Order of Saint Francis

O.S.F.

American  

abbreviation

  1. Order of St. Francis (Franciscan).


OSF British  

abbreviation

  1. Order of Saint Francis

"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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And as Leonard Benardo, the vice president of the O.S.F., noted when we spoke a few months ago, that work can be unpopular in the countries where it is done.

From New York Times • Jul. 17, 2018

Improving the status of Europe’s estimated 10 to 12 million Roma has been a major priority for Soros and the O.S.F. since the early 1990s.

From New York Times • Jul. 17, 2018

Leonard Benardo, the vice president of the O.S.F., made a similar observation.

From New York Times • Jul. 17, 2018

New York audiences can see “Party People” at the Public Theatre this fall, along with another play from the O.S.F. history cycle, Lynn Nottage’s knockout “Sweat,” about the collapse of a Pennsylvania factory town.

From The New Yorker • Aug. 9, 2016

The reference in our text is to the appointment of new bishops for these sees—for Cebú, Pedro Matías, O.S.F.; and for Nueva Cáceres, Pedro de Arce, O.S.A.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 17 of 55 1609-1616 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century by Robertson, James Alexander

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