As nouns,
sacrament is a hypernym of
holy order; that is,
sacrament is a
word with a broader meaning than
holy order:
- holy order: the sacrament of ordination
- sacrament: a formal religious ceremony conferring a specific grace on those who receive it; the two Protestant ceremonies are baptism and the Lord's Supper; in the Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church there are seven traditional rites accepted as instituted by Jesus: baptism and confirmation and Holy Eucharist and penance and holy orders and matrimony and extreme unction