sacred order

noun

Origin of sacred order

First recorded in 1720–30

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Scourges, he says, “are killers who act, momentarily, as agents freed from sacred order and its commanding truths.”
The Real Nightmare of Ferguson | James Poulos | August 15, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
In the English war, the first two classes availed not, and then came the turn of the sacred order.
Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 451 | Various
Sirach's proverbs are directed against the possibility of a revolution in the sacred order.
History of the Jews, Vol. I (of 6) | Heinrich Graetz
Don't be moved by declamations against ecclesiastical history, as if that could blacken the sacred order.'
James Boswell | William Keith Leask
You have brought insult upon our sacred order, and have caused bold and impious defiance of our high prerogative.
A Sicilian Romance | Ann Radcliffe

The songs in vogue then were principally of the sacred order.
Abraham Lincoln, Volume 1 (of 2) | William H. Herndon

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