religious house

noun

1. a convent or monastery.

Example Sentences

Then a bolt shot back, the door opened, and Michael and Chator entered the religious house.

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They are considered, I believe, to be memorials of the priors of Anglesey, a neighbouring religious house.

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I find here a freedom which not a religious house in the city can give me, nor one on the Isles, not Halki itself.

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And observe that one of his foundations was at a religious house—St. Martin's.

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Here, too, the Benedictines had a religious house; but what pleasant spot in England is without its religious house?

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