2. Noun. Nuns as a group. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Nunhood
1. the condition of a nun [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Nunhood
Literary usage of Nunhood
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The English Historical Review by Mandell Creighton, Justin Winsor, Samuel Rawson Gardiner, Reginald Lane Poole, John Goronwy Edwards (1897)
"The age of nunhood : by T. MOMMSEN [who shows that it was forbidden in 458 for
virgins to take the veil until they had completed their fortieth year. ..."
2. The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1839)
"Frightened at her Uncle's, by reading to him Dante's books of Hell and Judgment,
she confesses that she at length resolved on nunhood ..."
3. The English Illustrated Magazine (1891)
"Mother Charity was a fine old lady of seventy, boasting modestly of her fifty-two
years' nunhood. She looked fully ten years younger. ..."
4. Ancient Laws and Institutes of England: Comprising Laws Enacted Under the by Great Britain, Benjamin Thorpe (1840)
"... are in another manner, and are not reckoned in this number, nor also is nunhood
named herein. ..."
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