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Meanings of monasteries in English
Usage of monasteries in English
1
In this year also three monasteries were founded in Holland, near Amsterdam.
2
All of these books were written by the monks in different monasteries.
3
Certainly the monasteries did not return _less than they expended in alms.
4
Considering the abolition of the monasteries, the Article concerning vows was remarkable.
5
The merchants made use of the Buddhist monasteries as banks and warehouses.
6
The Thirty Years' War in Germany wrought much mischief to the monasteries.
7
Thus a number of causes brought on the ruin of the monasteries.
8
People throughout the delta were crammed into monasteries, schools and other buildings.
9
In the monasteries daily Mass is held, but this is only public.
10
The monasteries were filled with princes and nobles and ladies of rank.
11
The fen country of Cambridge and Lincolnshire was a region of monasteries.
12
You ought to know best, you go the round of the monasteries.
13
They showed their interest especially by the endowment of temples and monasteries.
14
The answer is, that the monasteries were not altogether tenanted by incapables.
15
Many churches in France, and several monasteries and villages, bear his name.
16
Yet monasteries crowned every eminence, and dotted the vales of southern Europe.
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Monasteries through the time
Monasteries across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Less common