Nunnery: alternatives and connections

A female superior or governess of a nunnery, or convent of nuns, having the same authority over the nuns which the abbots have over th…

A place to walk in, whether in the open air, as the gallery of a cloister, or within a building.

Destitute of any vestige of organic life, or at least of animal life; anterior to the existence of animal life; formed when there was…

A woman belonging to one of the religious and charitable associations or communities in the Netherlands, and elsewhere, whose members…

the monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of nonpregnant women from puberty to menopause; "the women were sickly and subject to e…

The state of being unmarried; single life, esp. that of a bachelor, or of one bound by vows not to marry.

A small religious house attached to a monastery or convent.

One of a religious order, dwelling in a convent, or a community, in opposition to an anchoret, or hermit, who lives in solitude.

To confine in, or as in, a cloister; to seclude from the world; to immure.

of Cloister

One belonging to, or living in, a cloister; a recluse.

of Cloister

Of, pertaining to, or confined in, a cloister; recluse.

The renunciation of religious or monastic vows.

Devoted to religion or to religious feelings and duties; absorbed in religious exercises; given to devotion; pious; reverent; religiou…

To shut up in a cloister; to cloister.

A house or place where factors, or commercial agents, reside, to transact business for their employers.

the monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of nonpregnant women from puberty to menopause; "the women were sickly and subject to e…