nunnery in English

noun
1
a building or group of buildings in which nuns live as a religious community; a convent.
You have to go to a desert, or to a monastery, a nunnery or an abbey.
synonyms:conventprioryabbeycloisterreligious community
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1. Or to a nunnery on Iona.

2. She refused marriage and entered a nunnery.

3. She left home and went to a nunnery.

4. Alderney 1757 Early period The Nunnery 350 A.D

5. I'm a Catholic and I can go into a nunnery.

6. The Tongjiao Temple inside Dongzhimen is the city's only Buddhist nunnery.

7. She was an Abbess who resided in a nunnery inMercia

8. Or what nunnery would take you,[Sentencedict.com] in your dishonour?

9. Go to a nunnery. Go away right now, you dirty woman!

10. Jack could not have looked more out of place if he'd been a Baywatch babe in a nunnery.

11. Unsure whether I have been understood, I put in a brisk spurt to the nunnery.

12. Chin also had a grandmother who lived in a nunnery , but she seldom came home.

13. With the development of society, these contradictions were intensified to induce the reform of the nunnery.

14. Noun nunnery, religious community, religious house She entered a Carmelite Convent at the age of 21.

15. After completing three rounds of the Barkhor we left to return to the nunnery separately.

16. To the south of these is an abandoned nunnery called Gompa Gang, the “Convent Ridge”.

17. On the way, the ruins of an old nunnery can be seen on the left.

18. Abate ir katoļu sieviešu klostera priekšniece ― an abbess is the leader of a Catholic nunnery (lit

19. She fell in love with him but, on discovering he was already married, she retired to a nunnery.

20. Raised in Nunnery The article “Abandoned by Parents—Loved by God” (June 22, 2001) brought back a lot of memories.

21. In 985, Ricdag and his sister, Eilsuit, founded the nunnery of Gerbstedt, in which he was buried and she was first abbess.

22. Frauenchiemsee, the smaller of the two main islands, houses a Benedictine nunnery, built in 782, as well as a small village.

23. Queen of England (23'-2 as the wife of Henry III. On the accession of her son Edward I (2, she entered a nunnery and there lived out her life.

24. Queen of England (1236-12 as the wife of Henry III. On the accession of her son Edward I (12, she entered a nunnery and there lived out her life.

25. Abbess (plural Abbesses) A female superior or governess of a nunnery, or convent of nuns, having the same authority over the nuns which the abbots have over the monks

26. In this paper, I review the historical evidence for female religious Claustration in Europe in an attempt to delineate the benefits a family might gain by allocating some of its resources to a nunnery

27. 20 reviews of Carmelite Monastery "I have a daughter so you can see why I might be interested in the local nunnery! Santa Clara is blessed to have a convent tucked away near the old downtown (down the road from SCU and St Clare)