English to Hmong Meaning of nunnery - nunnery


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nunnery

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Definitions of nunnery in English
Noun(1) the convent of a community of nuns
Examples of nunnery in English
(1) Close by was St Leonard's Priory, a Benedictine nunnery founded in the time of William the Conqueror, and mentioned by Geoffrey Chaucer in the prologue to his Canterbury Tales.(2) Subsequently, Heloise was sent to a nunnery and Abelard to a monastery, but not before he was castrated for his sins against Fulbert's niece.(3) Even the sisters in the Hippo nunnery were warned that a woman can unconsciously and unintentionally throw a man off balance merely by a flashing eye.(4) The princesses referred to their cloistered existence as ÔÇÿthe nunnery .ÔÇÖ(5) What do you want me to do, dress in black and live in a nunnery ?(6) Hamlet arrives, and reflects on suicide, action, and the fear of death before seeing Ophelia, whom he hysterically instructs to retreat to a nunnery : after he leaves, Ophelia laments that he has lost his reason.(7) So she takes herself to a nunnery , very conveniently as it turns out.(8) Here we were invited into a Tibetan nunnery , and on the outskirts, watched the arrival of pilgrims who visit the Muktinath temple complex that has structures sacred to both Hindus and Buddhists.(9) While Suor Marie Celeste's father defended the book he wrote, outlining his ideas on a heliocentric universe before the Inquisition, his daughter's letters tell him to wrap up warm and request money to help keep the nunnery running.(10) You have to go to a desert, or to a monastery, a nunnery or an abbey.(11) Isabel Thwaites was an orphan and had been placed under the guardianship of the Abbess of a nunnery at Appleton, near York.(12) Lacock Abbey, built as a nunnery in the thirteenth century, survives largely intact despite several campaigns of alterations and additions.(13) In one of these dreams, I was living in a nunnery in Tibet on a large white lake.(14) These monks and nuns live in their monasteries or nunneries all the rest of their lives, with no contact with the outside world.(15) Increasing emphasis on celibacy in tenth and eleventh-century English reform may have been a factor making direct kinship between bishops or abbots and kings rarer here, though that did not apply to abbesses and nunneries .(16) In independent Tibet, monasteries and nunneries , numbering over 6,000, served as schools and universities, fulfilling Tibet's educational needs.
Synonyms
Noun
1. convent ::
convent
2. priory ::
Priory
3. abbey ::
Abbey
4. cloister ::
cloister
5. religious community ::
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Different Forms
nunneries, nunnery
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