However, in the case where a Shinno who was ordered to become a Shinno by the emperor later became a priest, he was called a Nudo Shinno, but the usage of this distinction later gradually disappeared, and it became used in a broad sense as the meaning of Shinno who had renounced the world.
これに対して親王宣下を受けた親王が後に出家した場合には入道親王と呼称していたが、後にその用例の区別は次第になくなり、広く僧籍にある親王の意味で用いられるようになった。