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Definition
ceremony in which someone is officially declared a religious leader — such as a minister, priest, or rabbi
- God, who does the work, ordains the instrument.Chapter 20 (94% in)
- I, who preached contentment with a humble lot, and justified the vocation even of hewers of wood and drawers of water in God's service — I, His ordained minister, almost rave in my restlessness.Chapter 30 (79% in)
There are no more uses of "ordination" in Jane Eyre.
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