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Sepulchrine, a. (n.)|sɪˈpʌlkraɪn|
[f. sepulchre n. + -ine1.]
Used in the popular designation of the religious order of Canonesses Regular of the Holy Sepulchre. Also as n., a Sepulchrine nun.
a1800in Chron. St. Monica's, Louvain (1904) I. 228 The Sepulchrine community with whom she dwelt. 1905F. M. Steele Convents Gt. Brit. 228 Another [daughter] was a Sepulchrine at Liège. Ibid., A little volume preserved in the convent of the Sepulchrine nuns at Newhall. |