Word Finder - nun

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A member of a Christian religious community of women who live by certain vows and usually wear a habit, (specifically) those living together in a cloister.

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• moniale
• sister
• sistren

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(by extension) A member of a similar female community in other confessions.

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A prostitute.

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A kind of pigeon with the feathers on its head like the hood of a nun.

In fact, it was empty, except for the nun who brought her breakfast.

He married a portionless nun.

Her piety was already so noteworthy that it was said that Clotaire had married a nun, not a queen.

The scene of the legend now shifts to Rome, where Diocletian falls in love with a lovely nun named Ripsime; she, rather than gratify his passion, flees with her abbess Gaiana and several priests to Armenia.

In the same century the monastery of Gandersheim, south of Hanover, was the retreat of the learned nun Hroswitha, who celebrated the exploits of Otho in leonine hexameters, and composed in prose six moral and religious plays in imitation of Terence.

In the British Museum are the bronze matrices of seals of ZEthilwald, bishop of Dunwich, about Boo; of lElfric, alderman of Hampshire, about 985; and the finely carved ivory double matrix of Godwin the thane (on the obverse) and of the nun Godcythe (on the reverse), of the beginning of the 11th century.

Her education was strict, and her own wish was to be a nun in a convent of the order of the Visitation founded by her mother.

It is possible that she may have been a nun, as a convent had been founded in earlier times on Traprain Law.

West of the Nun all the estuaries up to the Forcados seem to be true mouths of the great river, while the Benin river, though linked to the others by transverse channels, may be more properly regarded as an independent stream.

Nunna is probably to be identified with Nun, described in the Chronicle as the kinsman of Ine of Wessex who fought with him against Gerent, king of the West Welsh, in 710.

Ports might be opened at Agadir Ighir (once occupied by the Portuguese for thirty years as Santa Cruz), Massa, Ifni, Arksis and Assaka at the mouth of the Wad Nun.

The return trip took them past Bascomb Place and as they rounded the corner, Fred yelled "Stop!" so violently Dean thought he was about to run down an unseen nun.

He couldn't have felt guiltier if he were molesting a nun.

She left him when he unjustly killed her brother, and fled to Medardus, bishop of Poitiers, who, notwithstanding the danger of the act, consecrated her as a nun.

Chaucer in his Nun's Priest's Tale ranks Bradwardine with St Augustine.

First of all living things was Re; rid told how he arose as a naked babe from a lotus-flower floated on the primeval ocean Nun.

Perhaps the truest and most feeling human documents of the century are the five epistles written by Marianna Alcoforado (q.v.) known to history as the Letters of a Portuguese Nun.

Julio Cesar Machado and Fialho de Almeida made their mark by many humorous publications, and, in the domain of pure literary criticism, mention must be made of Antonio Pedro Lopes de Mendonga, Rebello da Silva, Dr Joaquim de Vasconcellos, Mme Michaelis de Vasconcellos, Silva Pinto, the favourite disciple of Castello Branco, and of Luciano Cordeiro, founder of the Lisbon Geographical Society, whose able monograph, Soror Marianna, vindicated the authenticity of the Letters of a Portuguese Nun and showed Marianna Alcoforado to be their authoress.

Reichard, a German geographer, had suggested that the Rio Nun was the mouth of the Niger.

Thus far, he didn't know what it was he was supposed to need from the nun in front of him, and he was too cautious to set this bridge on fire.

Deidre was seated for a minute before a red-faced nun brought out a tray with a plate heaped with food and a coffee pot with creamer, sugars and mug.

After three years in simple vows, the young nun may ask to take solemn vows which bind her for life.

Which theater is haunted by the apparition of a nun?

She was a healer and friend who had taken ordination as a Buddhist nun.

Asked for her reasons, she was quite emphatic that she had seen a nun walking amidst the trees near the house.

They were religious with one of the girls becoming a nun, two of the boys Jesuit priests, and another a Dominican friar.

I got so many grimaces dressed as a nun at Run For Home, I think I'll wear the same!

His sister Isabella, soon to become a nun, pleads with Lord Angelo for her brother's life.

Q. What do you call a nun with a washing machine on her head?

Where else will you read about a sound system run by a nun?

Sister Mary McArthur, the singing nun, is on her journey to celebrity stardom.

Claudio's sister Isabella, a novice nun, is persuaded by his friend Lucio to plead with Angelo for her brother's life.

Next year, on the 5th of October 1406, he was sent with Sir John Cheyne to Paris to arrange a lasting peace and the marriage of Prince Henry with the French princess Marie, which was frustrated by her becoming a nun at Poissy next year.

The other rivers are the Bhargavi, the Daya and the Nun, all of which flow into the Chilka lake and are navigable by large boats during the rainy season, when the waters come down in tremendous floods, bursting the banks and carrying everything before them.

The gods had their ha and bai, and the forms attributed to the latter are surprising; thus we read that the soul of the sky Nun is Re, that of Osiris the Goat of Mendes, the souls of Sobk are crocodiles, and those of all the gods are makes; similarly the soul of Ptah was thought to dwell in the Apis bull, so that each successive Apis was during its lifetime the reincarnation of the god.

Near it is the nunnery in which the nun of Monza (see Manzoni's Promessi sposi) was enclosed.

Joao and Vida de Nun' Alvarez, he painted an admirable series of portraits and, following his master Michelet, made the past live again.

To the men who fought against the rising truths of physical philosophy, it seemed that if they admitted that truth it would destroy faith in God, in the creation of the firmament, and in the miracle of Joshua the son of Nun.

I was also struck by the iron grille which separates the nave from the nun 's choir with two rows of ancient choir stalls.

After three years in simple vows the young nun may ask to take solemn vows which bind her for life.

This time, former nun turned cleaver, super sleuth, Christine Bennett meets a distraught husband who has an incredible story to relate.

Every candidate for admission to a nun 's order took the vow of obedience.

Farrah Fawcett first appeared in guest roles on I Dream of Jeannie, The Flying Nun and The Partridge Family, and had her first film role in Myra Breckenridge in 1970.

But it was her role as a nun (a far cry from the sexy roles she'd become famous for) in the gripping drama Dead Man Walking (1995) that finally got her the coveted Oscar.

You may also want to apply to Christian colleges if you're considering a career as a priest, pastor, nun, clergyperson or other faith-based professional.

However, if zany choices define you, don't let anyone convince you to dress like a nun.

Halloween gives a pregnant woman the perfect excuse to dress as a pregnant nun, a pregnant prom queen, or the pregnant wife of Frankenstein.

By listening to the revelations of the "Holy Maid of Kent," the nun Elizabeth Barton, he was charged with misprision of treason, and was condemned to the loss of his goods and to imprisonment at the king's will, penalties he was allowed to compound by a fine of X300 (25th of March 1534).

Originally, on the other hand, Guinea was supposed to begin as far north as Cape Nun, opposite the Canary Islands, and Gomes Azurara, a Portuguese historian of the 15th century, is said to be the first authority who brings the boundary south to the Senegal.

The bay formed by the configuration of the land between Cape St Paul and the Nun mouth of the Niger is known as the Bight of Benin, the name being that of the once powerful native state whose territory formerly extended over the whole district.