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Holy Order vs subdeacon

subdeacon vs Holy Order

Holy Order and subdeacon both are nouns.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
Holy Order Yes No No No
subdeacon Yes No No No
As nouns, subdeacon is a hyponym of Holy Order; that is, subdeacon is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than Holy Order:
  • Holy Order: (usually plural) the status or rank or office of a Christian clergyman in an ecclesiastical hierarchy
  • subdeacon: a clergyman an order below deacon; one of the Holy Orders in the unreformed western Christian church and the eastern Catholic Churches but now suppressed in the Roman Catholic Church
Other hyponyms of Holy Order include acolyte, anagnost, deacon, doorkeeper, ostiarius, ostiary, exorcist, lector, reader, priest.
Holy Order (noun) subdeacon (noun)
(usually plural) the status or rank or office of a Christian clergyman in an ecclesiastical hierarchy a clergyman an order below deacon; one of the Holy Orders in the unreformed western Christian church and the eastern Catholic Churches but now suppressed in the Roman Catholic Church
Difference between Holy Order and subdeacon

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