Definition of Nunneries

1. Noun. (plural of nunnery) ¹

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Definition of Nunneries

1. nunnery [n] - See also: nunnery

Lexicographical Neighbors of Nunneries

nuncupative
nuncupative will
nuncupatory
nundinal
nundinals
nundinary
nundination
nundine
nundines
nunhood
nunhoods
nunlike
nunly
nunnation
nunnations
nunneries (current term)
nunnery
nunnish
nuns
nunship
nunships
nuoc mam
nuphar
nupharamine
nupson
nupsons
nuptial
nuptialities
nuptiality

Literary usage of Nunneries

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Present State of the Greek Church in Russia, Or, A Summary of Christian by Platon, Robert Pinkerton (1815)
"PRELIMINARY MEMOIR. ployed by the Empress Catherine II. in depriving the monasteries and nunneries of the extensive lands and numerous villages of peasants ..."

2. Essays on the Progress of Nations in Civilization, Productive Industry by Ezra Champion Seaman (1868)
"Monastic Orders—Monasteries and nunneries. Monastic orders and monasteries have had considerable influence in some countries, in withdrawing men from the ..."

3. The Statutes at Large from the Magna Charta, to the End of the Eleventh by Great Britain (1763)
"... priories, nunneries, colleges, hof- 'ап^5 ot the ... priories, nunneries, colleges, ., ? , ' *?e ,,.,,,- /• r • jir • jir п.- within the fur- IV. ..."

4. Church History by Johann Heinrich Kurtz (1889)
"Institution of nunneries.—Virgins devoted to God, who repudiated marriage, are spoken of as early as the 2nd century. The limitations of their sex forbade ..."

5. Mediaeval England, 1066-1350 by Mary Bateson (1903)
"The nunneries were increased in power by the introduction of two new rules ... It may be charged to the discredit of the nunneries that they produced no ..."

6. Publications by Oxford Historical Society (1885)
"Next it should be borne in mind that we have now arrived at a period when the foundation of nunneries was by no means uncommon in England. ..."

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