nunnery
Origin of nunnery
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How to use nunnery in a sentence
In March of 2017, with much fanfare and the Karmapa presiding, 19 women received novice monastic vows from a group of five fully ordained nuns from Nan Lin Vinaya nunnery in Taiwan.
Yes, the capricious, man-eating screen siren has, quite literally, gotten thee to a nunnery.
I shall get the place full of a jolly lot of girls, and Wendover Park won't be no mouldy church, nor no bloomin' nunnery.
The Everlasting Arms | Joseph HockingAnother cause of its unfavourable reception seems to have been, its second title of "Love in a nunnery."
The Works Of John Dryden, Volume 4 (of 18) | John DrydenOh, restore to me my maiden quietude, in my nunnery of Subiaco—when the night was so calm in my cell.
Balsamo, The Magician | Alexander Dumas
As its unearthly glow irradiated the world around him, reversing its light and shade, the visions of the nunnery recurred.
The Age of Erasmus | P. S. AllenThe child was then to be conveyed to the nunnery, her husband being deluded into the belief that she had miscarried.
The Mysteries of Montreal | Charlotte Fuhrer
British Dictionary definitions for nunnery
/ (ˈnʌnərɪ) /
the convent or religious house of a community of nuns
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