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Definition of Nunlike
1. resembling a nun [adj] - See also: nun
Lexicographical Neighbors of Nunlike
Literary usage of Nunlike
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy (1895)
"... her emergence in a nunlike simplicity of costume that was rather enforced than
desired ; the traipsing along to the station, the porter's " B'your leave ..."
2. The Century (1902)
"Howells describes somewhere the nunlike existence led by the inmates of New
England boarding-houses—shadowy beings who descend from their overheated rooms ..."
3. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1861)
"... as she was before she had begun to despise fine clothes and cleanliness ; the
Duchess of Queensbury, brilliant in a nunlike costume ; what must ehe have ..."
4. History of Spanish Literature by George Ticknor (1891)
"(Xime- gallant to be very nunlike. Her " Ri- * Ambrosio de la Roea y Serna was
some of the contents of which are too no, Tom. 1. p. ..."
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