Observantistn.
/əbˈzəːvntɪst/, U.S. /əbˈzərvən(t)əst/ Roman Catholic Church. rare.
A Franciscan Observant; = observant n. 1a.
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observant1474
Observantine1611
Minor-Observantine1762
Observantist1865
1865 New Englander (New Haven, Connecticut) Jan. 110 The most zealous of the monks in Italy at this time were the Observantists, a stricter offshoot of the Franciscan order.
1890 Cent. Dict. XIV. 4064/2 Observantist, specifically, a member of the more rigorous class of Franciscans which in the fifteenth century became separated from those—the Conventuals—following a milder rule.
1980 Speculum 55 797 The explosive vigor of the Observantist movement.
1994 Renaissance Q. 47 286 Bernardino, the Franciscan Observantist from Siena.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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