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  • noun Plural form of Minorite.

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Examples

  • The Minorites were the Low Churchmen of the thirteenth century, the

    The Coming of the Friars Augustus Jessopp 1868

  • Minorites have just as much right to the freedoms and perks of this nation as the majorities do.

    D.C. mayor signs same-sex marriage bill 2009

  • His use of light is ethereal: It streams brilliantly through works like "Church of the Minorites II" from 1926, "X-54 Sailboats" from 1929, and "Sunset at Deep" from 1930.

    A Divided Artist Comes Home Judith H. Dobrzynski 2011

  • Yes Young and EDUCATED, WHITE EDUCATED, AND Minorites AND those who have figured out that they have had the wool pulled over their eyes by the Bush/Cheny creeps.

    President Obama Dave Hurteau 2008

  • Minorites must also work to adjust their perceptions and self-image, but they have a MUCH bigger struggle.

    CSK: Redux Editorial Anonymous 2009

  • He became a Franciscan and rose in the order's educational hierarchy, probably studying theology at the University of Paris around 1310, then teaching at a Franciscan studium elsewhere, before returning to the Minorites 'Paris studium to lecture on the Sentences of Peter Lombard as bachelor of theology, a common career path for members of the mendicant orders at the time.

    Francis of Marchia Schabel, Christopher 2008

  • The fast was not so strict as in the Rule of St. Clare; the community was allowed to hold property, and the sisters were subject to the Minorites.

    St. Isabel of France de Brantigny........................ 2008

  • The fast was not so strict as in the Rule of St. Clare; the community was allowed to hold property, and the sisters were subject to the Minorites.

    Archive 2008-11-16 de Brantigny........................ 2008

  • Comyn and Bruce conspired, and made an appointment to meet at Dumfries, in the church of the Minorites.

    A Child's History of England 2007

  • Sorbonists, Minorites, with a rabble of idle controversies and questions, [6581] an Papa sit Deus, an quasi Deus?

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

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