double monastery

American  

noun

1. a religious community of both men and women who live in separate establishments under the same superior and who worship in a common church.

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Example Sentences

She was succeeded by her sister, Seaxburh, the widow of Erconberht, King of Kent, who had founded a double monastery at Sheppey, of which she was the first abbess.

From Early Double Monasteries A Paper read before the Heretics' Society on December 6th, 1914 by Stoney, Constance

The story throws a good deal of light on the way in which a large double monastery was organised.

From Early Double Monasteries A Paper read before the Heretics' Society on December 6th, 1914 by Stoney, Constance

It is here, then, that another brother and sister figure as the founders of a double monastery.

From Early Double Monasteries A Paper read before the Heretics' Society on December 6th, 1914 by Stoney, Constance

Finally, the double monastery did not flourish or find much favour in the more sophisticated ages of Christianity, but generally followed an outburst of religious enthusiasm in the earlier centuries of the Faith.

From Early Double Monasteries A Paper read before the Heretics' Society on December 6th, 1914 by Stoney, Constance

Hild was a Northumbrian Deborah whose counsel was sought even by kings; and the double monastery over which she ruled became a seminary of bishops and priests.

From History of the English People, Volume I Early England, 449-1071; Foreign Kings, 1071-1204; The Charter, 1204-1216 by Green, John Richard