Definition of "observantine" []

• One of a branch of the Order of Franciscans, who profess to adhere more strictly than the Conventuals to the intention of the founder, especially as to poverty; -- called also Observants. (noun)

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• "The difficulties between the observantine and reformed branches of the Augustinian order are recounted with some fulness."
• "The orders also confirmed the documents, especially the observantine Augustinians, in which they confuted the preceding adverse testimonies."
• "There they had had the first intelligence of the gospel, which the observantine Augustinians had tried to communicate to them."