conventual
Americanadjective
noun
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Etymology
Origin of conventual
1375–1425; late Middle English < Medieval Latin conventuālis, equivalent to Latin conventu-, stem of conventus convent + -ālis -al 1
Example Sentences
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Such tales so stirred up Massachusetts that a nunnery inspection committee was appointed to nose out conventual enormities.
From Time Magazine Archive
Greying Anglo-Saxon Scholar Ayres, who began teaching at Columbia in 1908, must combine the talents of a hotelkeeper, a national planner, a circus ringmaster and a conventual supervisor of morals.
From Time Magazine Archive
She greatly admired Frank de Lacey, who had built himself a hut in the woods and went there to meditate, but she was not ready for so conventual a life.
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Out of that beginning grew orders of deaconesses for service and of conventual nuns for contemplation.
From Time Magazine Archive
Only a few years passed before she had to choose between a conventual life and a distasteful marriage.
From The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine by Rameur, E.
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