Example Sentences

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An unordained tattoo artist applies ink with a thin metal needle.Credit...

From New York Times • Oct. 25, 2021

The House of Laity comprises of unordained members of the church who are indirectly elected every 5 years.

From The Guardian • Feb. 4, 2020

Pope Pius IX selected the last unordained cardinal, in 1858, an Italian lawyer named Teodolfo Mertel.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 28, 2018

A self-described "catalyst for God," the ebullient, unordained born-again Christian minister suffered a severe depression in the late '50s after the births of her four children and a car accident.

From Time Magazine Archive

The parish churches were cleared of their unordained ministers.

From Bunyan by Froude, James Anthony