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Meanings of conventual in English
Of communal life sequestered from the world under religious vows.
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Examples for "monastic"
Examples for "monastic"
1
The expenses of the Roman Curia increased; the monastic Orders were wealthy.
2
Absolutely nothing was left in the house after the monastic sacked it.
3
There had long been other monastic Rules known in the Frankish territories.
4
There is a moral lesson in these memorials of the monastic ages.
5
You and I have lived over forty years in the monastic life.
1
Anies should have been delivered into a cloistered nunnery thirty years ago.
2
No longer cloistered among freshman, he found it harder to be noticed.
3
Her cloistered upbringing has not prepared her very well for this moment.
4
Gower has his lover hear tales from a confessor in cloistered quiet.
5
We wander through cloistered courts into the main body of the church.
1
So she loved the cloistral feeling autumn brought with it to Welsley.
2
There is nothing cloistral about the University of Chicago except its architecture.
3
Raphael's mind was large; and larger by being conscious of its cloistral limitations.
4
Mr. Prohack, despite a cloistral lifetime at the Treasury, recognised her type immediately.
5
Gradually she became accustomed to govern her tongue, and to this cloistral silence.
1
Thou likest best monastical brewis, the prime, the flower of the pot.
2
Never yet did a man of worth dislike good wine, it is a monastical apophthegm.
3
When monastical writers became famous, they were usually designated from the religious houses to which they belonged.
4
Does the law of nature look on that absolute chastity so recommended in monastical institutions, as a virtue?
5
Nearer, their pointed hoods made them monastical as a procession stealing from a range of cells to chant a midnight mass.
Usage of conventual in English
1
The garden was conventual, the house had the air of a prison.
2
From that point of view conventual life might be bad for him.
3
This was the case in all the English conventual cathedrals, e.g.
4
In her uneasiness she appealed to Father Certificatus, the conventual confessor.
5
In the year 1528, James V. added a palace to the conventual buildings.
6
Afterward, the conventual Mass was a Mass for Pilgrims and Travelers.
7
They have heard of his violent behaviour in conventual establishments before.
8
If these are conventual manners, I hope that Clara may not adopt them.
9
Nothing remains of the conventual buildings but a few scanty patches of masonry.
10
And yet the conventual prejudice which banishes its name subsists still.
11
No conventual gloom was ever deeper than the gloom of Fellside.
12
She made Isabel a little conventual curtsey and then came to be kissed.
13
You, you know, dear Alice, are promised to a conventual life.
14
She desired to take the conventual vows; but he restrained her a long time.
15
He was not called by God to conventual life; .
16
She has no vocation for the conventual life and- Iwasbeginning to become anxious.
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