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Definition of Nunnery
1. Noun. The convent of a community of nuns.
Definition of Nunnery
1. n. A house in which nuns reside; a cloister or convent in which women reside for life, under religious vows. See Cloister, and Convent.
Definition of Nunnery
1. Noun. (archaic) a place of residence for nuns ¹
2. Noun. (slang) (obsolete) a brothel ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Nunnery
1. a religious house for nuns [n -NERIES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Nunnery
Literary usage of Nunnery
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. London by Charles Knight (1851)
"We have spoken of a nunnery which once bounded Clerkenwell Green on the north.
This occupied the site of what arc now the parish church and the Close ..."
2. Celtic Scotland: A History of Ancient Alban by William Forbes Skene (1887)
"It is of this Benedictine monastery and nunnery that the present ruins are the
remains ; and they were formerly connected by a causeway which extended in a ..."
3. Original Letters Illustrative of English History: Including Numerous Royal by Henry Ellis (1846)
"Henry Lord Stafford to Lord Cromwell. The nunnery of ... White Ladies " mentioned
in this Letter was the Cistercian nunnery of Brewood in Shropshire, ..."
4. The Church History of Britain: From the Birth of Jesus Christ Until the Year by Thomas Fuller, John Sherren Brewer (1845)
"GRAVELINES nunnery. The family of the Gages, ... 72. who had little property to
Lis- k [Lewis Owen, ib. p. 104.] nunnery. ..."
5. The "Flower of Gloster," by Ernest Temple Thurston (1911)
"XXXII AN OLD nunnery SOON after I had left Bidford I met two old women with ...
said I. " The nunnery," said they, and on I went with quickening steps. ..."
6. Publications by Oxford Historical Society (1885)
"BEFORE speaking of the foundation of a nunnery in Oxford, it seems necessary to
say a few words on the ecclesiastical history of the district, ..."
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