10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «NUNNISHNESS»
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Fox's Book of martyrs: the acts and monuments of the church
This queen was the mother (as is said) of Elizabeth the nun, who for her holy
nunnishness was canonized of the pope's church for a saint in Almaine, about
the year of our Lord 1220. And this by the way. Now to proceed further in the
years and ...
John Foxe, John Cumming, 1851
2
A glossary of liturgical and ecclesiastical terms
NUNNISHNESS. — The habits, practices, or manners of nuns. NUN-ROBE.—
The religious habit of a nun. NUNS. — Women who have taken religous vows,
and live apart from the world. St. Jerome used the word vonna to describe a
religious ...
Frederick George Lee, 1877
115 ; here the French es or ex had influence. The s is inserted in gallowses, vi.
549. Among the new Substantives are bunch of keys, deed-doer, nunnishness,
the Pope's man (his candidate), a Cambridge man (student), a Scripture man, ...
Thomas Laurence Kington-Oliphant, 1886
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English and Chinese pronouncing dictionary
Nunnishness, (nun'-nish-nes) n. The habits of nuns, JEf£, itW&ffl.. Nuphar, (uew'-
far) ». 3£S!j?£Si. Nuptial, (nuf/-shal) a. Jgjgtfj; nuptial ceremonies, 4$3|i»5, 3M.
tijQ; the nuptial bed, Sfiff5K; nuptial lamentations, O^tllj nuptial presents, !j|£§; ...
Shang wu yin shu kuan, 1903
5
Lola, California: A Novel
... while the nervous brown hands stay crossed like the well-bred schoolgirl she
remains, an optimistic product of the twentieth century, a leftover from Catholic-
school-near-the- rez upbringing, Mary's nunnishness her continued trait despite
the ...
6
An Alphabetical List of English Words Occurring in the ...
2 1860 nundine, sb. 3 1609 nune, sb. 2 nun , sb. W. 1840 nunfiy, sb. 3 nunmete,
sb. H. 1860 nunni, sb. 3 1646 nunnif_v, v.t. 2 1535 nunnish, adj. 2 1553
nunnishness, sb. 2 nunquam, sb. H. nunreis, sb. J. nunrye, sb. H. nnnt, v.t. H.
nunting, adj.
"That memory is always fresh in my mind," he wrote her almost thirty years later, "
and you were rightly indignant at the nunnishness of the place in not allowing
you to take tea with your guest!"49 On July 1, 1934, Madeleva wrote a single ...
Gail Porter Mandell, 1997
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Hugging the Shore: Essays and Criticism
Thismiracledoesnot, however, restore Anne's faith, nordoes Christ's manifestation
appreciably affectthe course of her earthly infatuation and spiritual quandary; she
finally does not so much reembrace nunnishness as shrink back into adiluted ...
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An English and Chinese standard dictionary: M-Z
A largo packet or bale of cloves, TiSAtL- Isunnery, (nun'-ne-re) n. A house for
nuns, Jg, JgR, fij^, JE$I; as, nunnery among the Roman Catholics, -frffe
Nunnishness, (nun'-nish-nes) n. The habits of nuns, fB&L, JEfll, ic^^-M- Nuphar, (
new'-far) n.
... to her nunnishness; it suited her, for some reason I couldn't fathom. Buster got
seriously involved with some girl from the poly who later proved to be under-age,
which made for a lot of moist eyes in the starlight and crossing-off of days on the ...
