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Definition of Convents
1. convent [v] - See also: convent
Lexicographical Neighbors of Convents
Literary usage of Convents
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"Provincia Ba- i'arico - Germánica et Polonica, with 7 convents in Bavaria, 1 in
Prussia, and 1 in Austrian Galicia. 8. Provincia Bohemia:, with 7 convents ..."
2. Biblical Researches in Palestine, and in the Adjacent Regions: A Journal of by Edward Robinson (1874)
"The Greek convents are tenanted by foreigners, all Greeks by birth, ... There are
eight convents for. men, containing in all about sixty monks, ..."
3. The Secret History of the Oxford Movement by Walter Walsh (1899)
"Ritualistic Sisterhoods formed on Roman models—Dr. Pusey visits Romish convents
in Ireland—Borrows Rules from English and Continental Nunneries—Hislop on ..."
4. The Miscellaneous and Posthumous Works of Henry Thomas Buckle by Henry Thomas Buckle (1872)
"In Guadix we find 6000 souls, with four churches and seven convents ; in Ecija,
28000, with six churches, eight chapels, and twenty convents; and Seville, ..."
5. The British Quarterly Review by Robert Vaughan, Henry Allon (1869)
"were female convents more numerous throughout the country. ... Another error has
been that of taking the female convents in later times and in other ..."
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