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Nun (monialis), a female bound by vows of celibacy, living in company with other nuns in a nunnery or convent. An obsolete (English) Act of 1285 (13 Edw. 1,c. 6) (Statute of Westminster the Second) punishes the abduction of a nun, though consenting, from her convent by three years' imprisonment and fine. Nuns are excepted from Jury Service by 12 & 13 Geo. 5, c. 11....
Loreto nuns
Members of a congregation of nuns founded by Mrs Mary Teresa Ball near Dublin Ireland in 1822 and now spread over Ireland India Canada and the United States The nuns are called also Ladies of Loreto They are engaged in teaching girls...
Nunnish
Of pertaining to or resembling a nun characteristic of a nun...
Obsolete
Obsolete, invalid by virtue of discontinuance, said of a law or practice which has ceased to be enforced or be in use by reason of change of manners and circumstances, as 'wager or battel' (see BATTEL, WAGER OF), the punishment of the stocks (see STOCKS), the provision of the Gaming Act of Henry VIII. (33 Hen. 8, c. 9) (Revised Statutes, 2nd Edn., vol. i. p. 378, published in 1888; Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Games and Gaming'), by which labourers and others are forbidden to play cards or other specified games 'out of Christmas,' but allowed to play them in Christmas in their masters' houses and in their masters' presence; and that of 1285 in the Stat. Westm. Sec., 13 Edw. 1, c. 34, by which elopement with a nun from her convent, although the nun consent, is punishable by three years' imprisonment and fine. For further instances, see the (English) Statute Law Revision Act, 1908 (8 Edw. 7, c. 49); and see also STATUTE LAW REVISION. But however absurd and, in common language, obsolete an En...
Bonze
A Buddhist or Fohist priest monk or nun...
Clare
A nun of the order of St Clare...
Cloistress
A nun...
dreidel
a toy shaped somewhat like a top but having four flat sides each marked with one of the Hebrew letters nun gimel he or shin It is spun like a top and the letter showing when it stops spinning determines the outcome of a game of chance...
Jesuitess
One of an order of nuns established on the principles of the Jesuits but suppressed by Pope Urban in 1633...
Lorettine
One of an order of nuns founded in 1812 at Loretto in Kentucky The members of the order called also Sisters of Loretto or Friends of Mary at the Foot of the Cross devote themselves to the cause of education and the care of destitute orphans their labors being chiefly confined to the western United States...
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