Ursuline

American  

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

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

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 Seattle 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

On a line with this building is the nunnery, containing 40 sisters of the Ursuline order.

From Norman's New Orleans and Environs Containing a Brief Historical Sketch of the Territory and State of Louisiana and the City of New Orleans, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time by Norman, B. M.