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plural Spirituals
(Christianity, historical) A member of a branch of the Franciscan order that advocated simple dress and renounced the owning of property. quotations
But in the years that followed, the cause of the Spirituals became championed by far more substantial figures within the church.
2007, Edwin Mullins, The Popes of Avignon, Blue Bridge, published 2008, page 56