Ursuline

American  

[ur-suh-lin, -lahyn, -leen, urs-yoo-] / ˈɜr sə lɪn, -ˌlaɪn, -ˌlin, ˈɜrs jʊ- /

noun

1. Roman Catholic Church. a member of an order of nuns founded at Brescia, Italy, about 1537, devoted to teaching.

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adjective

1. of or relating to the Ursulines.

Ursuline British  

/ ˈɜːsjʊˌlaɪn /

noun

1. a member of an order of nuns devoted to teaching in the Roman Catholic Church: founded in 1537 at Brescia

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adjective

1. of or relating to this order

Etymology

Origin of Ursuline

1685–95; Saint Ursul(a) + -ine ¹

Example Sentences

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Ursuline

Instead, the Ursuline order of nuns, founded a few years before, undertook the education of young women.

From Textbooks ● Dec. 14, 2022

In 2014, an Italian Ursuline nun named Cristina Scuccia won “The Voice” in Italy and got a record deal.

From New York Times ● May 16, 2022

One of the oldest Black sisterhoods, the Sisters of the Holy Family, formed in New Orleans in 1842 because white sisterhoods in Louisiana, including the slave-holding Ursuline order, refused to accept African Americans.

From Washington Times ● Apr. 30, 2022

In 1977, she entered the Ursuline novitiate at Mount Saint Joseph in Maple Mount, Ky. She moved to Guatemala after teaching kindergarten in Kentucky.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 19, 2021

Close by the house was the chapel of the Ursuline convent, and above that its slender spire rose chaste and stainless, "pointing the way to heaven."

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 2, No. 12, May, 1851. by Various