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Religious people: monks & nuns
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Franciscan
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lay brother
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mother
novice
priory
Trappist monk
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monastery | American Dictionary

monastery
noun[ C ]
us/ˈmɑn·əˌster·i/
a building or group of buildings in which monks (= religious men) live and worship

Examples of monastery

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With a limited economic base, nonetheless, the investment in creating a cosmology within the monastery in the early 9th century is truly extraordinary.
As a result, they came under attack from evangelicals and their houses were eventually dissolved along with the monasteries.
The suppression of the monasteries is not one of them.
The letterwriter's portrayal of the monastery as ripped apart by factionalism is undoubtedly more accurate.
Giving to monasteries tempered the individualism, and targeted the charity.
The conduct of the gentlemen was unfavourably compared with that of the monasteries.
The monastery itself provided accommodation for the symposium participants, thanks to the hospitality of the abbess.
In the western city, new churches reoccupied the sites which had been used during penal times, themselves often the location of medieval monasteries.
Consequently, some of the abandoned monasteries were repopulated during their rule.
The combination of fair and religious feast will have brought people of all social ranks to the monastery at this time of the year.
A donor might also acquire confraternity and the right to be buried in the church, while the founder of a new monastery gained renown.
The religious orders were also considered to be pillars of stability, particularly the monasteries.
It also appears that the conflict was as much about policy, the monastery's ' way of keeping religion ', as about raw power.
The processing of wool, iron, and flax was done in monasteries or on large estates by serfs.
Third and finally, she was intent upon founding a new monastery, and it is this seemingly modest aim which best illuminates her overtly political ambitions.
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