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nunnery|ˈnʌnərɪ|
Forms: α. 3–7 nonnerie, 3–5 -erye, 4, 6 nonery, 6 noonery. β. 4, 7 nunnerie, 5 nvnnerye, 6– nunnery (7 nunery).
[Prob. ad. AF. *nonnerie, f. nonne nun n.1: see -ery. Cf. F. nonnerie (Littré).]
1. A place of residence for a body or community of nuns; a building in which nuns live under religious rule and discipline; a convent.
αc1275Lay. 15642 Nou was Merlyn his moder..in one nonnerie munechene ihoded. c1290S. Eng. Leg. I. 91/148 And al þis compaygnie I-burede weren in Coloyne, in one Nonnerie. c1330R. Brunne Chron. Wace (Rolls) 14225 Scheo ȝald hure til þat nonnerye, & tok þe veil for hure folye. c1386Chaucer Reeve's T. 48 For hir kynreed and hir nortelrye, That sche had lerned in a nonnerye. c1425Hampole's Psalter Metr. Pref. 28 Þar it lyȝt in cheyn bondes in þe same nonery. 1470–85Malory Arthur xxi. ix. 854 Atte last he cam to a nonnerye. 1523Ld. Berners Froiss. I. cxxv. 151 The kyng of Englande was at Poissoy, and lay in the nonery there. c1612Women Saints 55 Her sister St. Etheldred..founder of that Nonnerie.
βc1305Land Cokayne 147 An oþer abbei is þerbi For soth a gret fair nunnerie. 1483Cath. Angl. 257/1 A Nvnnerye, cenobium. 1571A. Jenkinson Voy. & Trav. (Hakl. Soc.) I. 137 Not farre from the said Castle was a Nunnery of sumptuous building. 1602Shakes. Ham. iii. i. 122 Get thee to a Nunnerie. Ibid. 132 Goe thy wayes to a Nunnery. 1648Gage West Ind. 58 This man alone built a Nunery of Franciscan Nuns. a1699A. Halkett Autobiog. (Camden) 15 That there was a nunery in Holland for those of the Protestant relligion. 1707Lady M. W. Montagu Lett. II. xlvii. 43 Her relations..would certainly confine her to a nunnery for the rest of her days. 1756–7tr. Keysler's Trav. (1760) II. 229 There are boards placed before most of the windows, like those in a great many nunneries. 1841Elphinstone Hist. Ind. I. 201 Nunneries for women seem also, at one time, to have been general. 1886Pall Mall G. 17 July 5/2 To the south-east we may see the ruins of Sopwell nunnery.
fig.1634Habington Castara i. (Arb.) 18 Yee blushing Virgins [sc. roses] happie are In the chaste Nunn'ry of her brests. 1652Crashaw Elegy Mr. Stanninow, Whose nest Was in the modest Nunnery of his brest.
attrib.1859Tennyson Guinevere 225 O little maid, shut in by nunnery walls. 1884J. Hall Christian Home 113 When no safety could be hoped for California girls but in nunnery schools.
b. transf. A house of ill fame.
1593Nashe Christ's T. 79 b, [To] some one Gentleman generally acquainted, they giue..free priuiledge thence⁓forward in theyr Nunnery, to procure them frequentance. 1617Fletcher Mad Lover iv. ii, Theres an old Nunnerie at hand. What's that? A bawdy-house. 17..(title-p.), The Complete London Spy, or Disclosures of the Transactions in and around London and Westminster Coffee houses, Nunneries, Night Houses, Taverns, Bagnios, etc.
†2. The institution of conventual life for women; nunship. Obs.
1650Fuller Pisgah ii. iii. §11. 95 marg., Nicolas Lyra in locum, with most Roman commentators since his time, in hope to found Nunnery thereupon. 1679M. Prance Add. Narrative 11 English Gentlewomen,..who have a mind to take the Vail of Nunnery upon them.
†b. Nun-like chastity. Obs. rare—1.
1654Gayton Pleas. Notes ii. vi. 60 Marcelas speech is a pure defence of resolv'd virginity, vow'd Nunnery [etc.].
3. A company of nuns. (In quots. fig.)
1651Cleveland Poems 1 Not the fair Abbess of the skies, With all her Nunnery of eyes. 1715Addison Freeholder No. 15 (1751) 88 A Fan which has on it a Nunnery of lively black-ey'd Vestals. |