mother house
Americannoun
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a convent housing a mother superior of a community of nuns.
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a self-governing convent having authority over other houses.
Etymology
Origin of mother house
First recorded in 1665–75
Example Sentences
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But the Little Sisters refused to accept them and kept Saint Michel in place in the mother house.
From Fox News ● Dec. 8, 2018
She remains at the mother house in Saint-Aignan sur Roë, in western France.
From Fox News ● Dec. 8, 2018
“That was a life-changing experience,” said Smith, who went on to work many years in Kansas City’s poorest neighborhoods and now lives retired in a Sisters of Loretto mother house in Kentucky.
From Washington Times ● Apr. 10, 2016
Then what she calls providence placed her in a Daughters of St. Paul mother house in Culver City, Calif., virtually next door to Hollywood.
From New York Times ● Jan. 25, 2013
The visitation of the cell was usually included in that of the mother house and the larger independent cells were often subject to episcopal visitation.
From Medieval English Nunneries c. 1275 to 1535 by Eileen Power
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