semi-ordination

Updated: May 17, 2025

But, if she is ecclesiastically forgotten, it must be remembered that her position receives a shy and timid recognition from society. She is credited with a quasi-clerical character, and regarded as having received a sort of semi-ordination.

E. Lynn (Elizabeth Lynn) Linton - Modern Women and What is Said of Them: A Reprint of A Series of Articles in the Saturday Review (1868)