Order of Our Lady of Mount Carmel
- noun
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Orden de Nuestra Señora del Monte Carmelo
- Members of the Order of Our Lady of Mount Carmel are known for their distinctive habits and devotion to contemplation.
Examples
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The Order of Our Lady of Mount Carmel played a significant role in the spread of Carmelite spirituality.
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Several historic churches in Europe were established by the Order of Our Lady of Mount Carmel.
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The Order of Our Lady of Mount Carmel has a rich history.
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Many monks belong to the Order of Our Lady of Mount Carmel.
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Members of the Order of Our Lady of Mount Carmel are known for their distinctive habits and devotion to contemplation.
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Several historic churches in Europe were established by the Order of Our Lady of Mount Carmel.
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The Order of Our Lady of Mount Carmel played a significant role in the spread of Carmelite spirituality.
Synonyms
A group of Roman Catholic people who live together and focus on quiet prayer
Surface Forms
Morphology
order + of + our + Lady + of + mount + Carmel
The expression is compositionally built from 'order' (a religious community) and the genitive phrase 'Our Lady of Mount Carmel', so a learner who knows the constituents can infer it is a religious order associated with 'Our Lady' and a place called Mount Carmel. However, understanding that 'Our Lady' is a conventional title for the Virgin Mary and recognizing Mount Carmel as a specific religiously significant location requires cultural or world-knowledge beyond straight lexical composition, making the meaning only partly predictable.
Etymology
The name Order of Our Lady of Mount Carmel comes from a group of Christian religious men who lived alone on Mount Carmel in Palestine near a small chapel to Our Lady, the 'Virgin Mary'. They lived a quiet life of prayer and later became an official religious order, so the name now means a Catholic group devoted to the 'Virgin Mary' and to 'prayer'.
