Meanings of lesser brethren in English

There was no mistaking its perfect symmetry, as it towered above its lesser brethren.

That the same shall be done in the church of the said friars and lesser brethren.

That day was theirs alone to be shared with no other living thing, save the lesser brethren of the wilderness.

Colossus can't move with the agility of his lesser brethren, we must comfort ourselves and stay our impatience with that reflection.

That strange, wild wanderer's greeting that the gray geese called down to their lesser brethren in the meadows had a really extraordinary effect upon him.

And this Order is the Order of the Lesser Brethren, the Fratres Minores; and often they are called Franciscans, or the Friars of St. Francis.