nunneryn.

Brit.

/ˈnʌn(ə)ri/, U.S.

/ˈnənəri/

Forms:

α. Middle English nonerie, Middle English nonneriȝe, Middle English nonnery, Middle English nonnerye, Middle English–1500s nonery, Middle English–1600s nonnerie, 1500s noonery, 1700s nonnere; Scottish pre-1700 nonerie.

β. Middle English nunnerye, Middle English 1600s nunery, Middle English 1600s nunnerie, 1500s– nunnery, 1600s nunn'ry (poetic); Scottish pre-1700 nunere, pre-1700 nunerie, pre-1700 1700s– nunnery.

γ. Scottish pre-1700 nouneris (plural).

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: nun n.¹, -ery suffix.

Etymology: < nun n.¹ + -ery suffix. Compare Anglo-Norman nonerye (late 14th cent. or earlier), and also French nonnerie (1803). Compare nunry n.The usual word in Old English is nunmynster (also nunnanmynster).

a. A place of residence for a community of nuns; a building or group of buildings in which nuns live as a religious community; a convent. Also figurative.

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > artefacts > monastic property (general) > monastery or convent > [noun]

minstereOE

monklifeeOE

clausterc1000

abbotricOE

house?a1160

anchor-house?c1225

religion?c1225

abbeyc1300

nunneryc1300

house (also abbey) of religiona1325

nunryc1325

closterc1330

cloister1340

monasterya1425

monk-house?c1475

friars1479

convent1528

guild1546

prioressy1575

abbey-stead1620

minchery1710

reclusory1821

akhara1838

house of piety1838

kloster1844

α.

c1300 11000 Virgins (Laud) 148 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 91 And al þis compaygnie I-burede weren in Coloyne in one Nonnerie.

c1325 (c1300) Chron. Robert of Gloucester (Calig.) 5735 (MED) King edgar & seint aþelwold..An oþer hous..hii rerde of seinte marie, Of womman of religyon & made a nonnerye.

c1405 (c1390) G. Chaucer Reeve's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 48 For hir kynrede and hir nortelrye That she hadde lerned in the Nonnerye [v.rr. Nonerie, nunnerye].

a1425 Comm. in H. R. Bramley Rolle's Psalter (1884) 1 (MED) This same sauter..lyȝt in cheyn bondes in the same nonery.

a1450 (a1338) R. Mannyng Chron. (Lamb.) (1887) i. 14225 Scheo ȝald hure til þat nonnerye [Fr. abaie], & tok þe veil for hure folye.

1485 Malory's Morte Darthur (Caxton) i. ii. sig. aij^v The thyrd syster morgan lefey was put to scole in a nonnery.

1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. cxxv. 151 The kyng of Englande was at Poissoy, and lay in the nonery there.

1561 Thirds of Benefices 53 For the thrid of the nonerie of the Senis.

c1610–15 Life St. Sexburge in C. Horstmann Lives Women Saints (1886) 55 Her sister St. Etheldred..founder of that Nonnerie.

a1770 T. Chatterton Compl. Wks. (1971) I. 22 This Broder was called evrich wheere To Kenshamm and to Brystol Nonnere.

β. ?c1335 (a1300) Land of Cokaygne 148 in W. Heuser Kildare-Gedichte (1904) 149 An oþer abbei is þer bi For soþ a gret fair nunnerie.c1450 Jacob's Well (1900) 81 In a Nunnerye was a nunne þat..toke lownes, & made here as a fool & obeyid here to alle here sustren as here fool.?c1475 Catholicon Anglicum (BL Add. 15562) f. 87 A Nunery, cenobium, Abbay.1571 A. Jenkinson Early Voy. & Trav. (1886) I. 137 Not farre from the said Castle was a Nunnery of sumptuous building.1603 W. Shakespeare Hamlet iii. i. 123 Go to a Nunnery [1604 Nunry, 1623 Nunnerie] goe.1634 W. Habington Castara i. 2 Yee blushing Virgins [sc. roses] happy are In the chaste Nunn'ry of her brests.a1648 R. Crashaw Poems (1904) 360 Whose nest Was in the modest Nunnery of his brest.a1699 A. Halkett Autobiogr. (1875) 15 There was a nunery in Holland for those of the Protestant relligion.1718 Lady M. W. Montagu Let. May (1965) I. 408 Her Catholic Relations..would certainly confine her to a Nunnery for the rest of her Days.1771 T. Smollett Humphry Clinker I. 16 Liddy had been..cooped up in a boarding-school, which, next to a nunnery, is the worst kind of seminary that ever was contrived for young women.1800 S. Turner Acct. Embassy Court Teshoo Lama ii. viii. 312 Of nunneries, as well as monasteries, the number is considerable.1841 M. Elphinstone Hist. India I. ii. iv. 201 Nunneries for women seem also, at one time, to have been general.1884 J. Hall Christian Home 113 When no safety could be hoped for California girls but in nunnery schools.1915 V. Woolf Voy. Out xii. 191 She's been brought up practically in a nunnery.1959 H. Plutzik Apples from Shinar 49 Say nothing, or I will arrange to have you locked In that nunnery, Earth, where there's no more tumbling and tossing.1989 Theatre Res. Internat. 14 27 Donna Elvira leaves the stage to retire to a nunnery, a quite proper course of action for a lady who has compromised her honour.γ. a1500 Advocates' MS 25.4.14 f. 100, in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue at Nunerie [King David] mad mony castell and abbays chanonryis with sindry nouneris.

b. slang. A brothel. Now historical.

ΘΚΠ

society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > prostitution > [noun] > brothel

houseOE

bordelc1300

whorehousec1330

stew1362

bordel housec1384

stewc1384

stivec1386

stew-house1436

bordelryc1450

brothel house1486

shop?1515

bains1541

common house1545

bawdy-house1552

hothouse1556

bordello1581

brothela1591

trugging house1591

trugging place1591

nunnery1593

vaulting-house1596

leaping house1598

Pickt-hatch1598

garden house1606

vaulting-school1606

flesh-shambles1608

whore-sty1621

bagnioa1640

public house1640

harlot-house1641

warrena1649

academy1650

call house1680

coney burrow1691

case1699

nanny-house1699

house of ill reputea1726

smuggling-ken1725

kip1766

Corinth1785

disorderly house1809

flash-house1816

dress house1823

nanny-shop1825

house of tolerance1842

whore shop1843

drum1846

introducing house1846

khazi1846

fast house1848

harlotry1849

maison de tolérance1852

knocking-shop1860

lupanar1864

assignation house1870

parlour house1871

hook shop1889

sporting house1894

meat house1896

massage parlour1906

case house1912

massage establishment1921

moll-shop1923

camp1925

notch house1926

creep joint1928

slaughterhouse1928

maison de convenance1930

cat-house1931

Bovril1936

maison close1939

joy-house1940

rib joint1940

gaff1947

maison de passe1960

rap parlour1973

1593 T. Nashe Christs Teares 79 b [To] some one Gentleman generally acquainted, they giue..free priuiledge thenceforward in theyr Nunnery, to procure them frequentance.

1594 Gesta Grayorum (1914) 12 Lucy Negro, Abbess de Clerkenwell, holdeth the Nunnery of Clerkenwell.

a1625 J. Fletcher Mad Lover iv. ii, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. C4^v/1 Chi. Ther's an old Nunnerie at hand. Clo. What's that. Chi. A bawdie House.

1781 Compl. Mod. London Spy (title page) The characters of many well-known Persons who are now frequenters at Gaming-Houses, Bagnios, and other Nunneries, Night-Houses,..Taverns, [etc.].

1785 F. Grose Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue Nunnery, a bawdy house.

1846 ‘Lord Chief Baron’ Swell's Night Guide (new ed.) 126/2 Nunnery, a brothel.

1977 J. T. Shipley In Praise of Eng. 194 To the antipapist Tudors nunnery was a slang term for a brothel.

†2.

a. The institution of convent life; nunship. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > church government > monasticism > nun > [noun] > condition of being

nunnerya1350

sisterheada1393

nunryc1450

sistership1535

sisterhood?1540

nunnishness1570

nunship1624

the veil1791

nunhooda1834

a1350 (?c1280) Conception of Mary (Ashm.) 161 in C. Horstmann Altengl. Legenden (1875) 1st Ser. 74 (MED) Heo was ibore In hire fader house..þat nouþe an abbei is In honourance of s. anne, of blake nonnerie.

1650 T. Fuller Pisgah-sight of Palestine ii. iii. 95 (margin) Nicolas Lyra in locum, with most Roman commentators since his time in hope to found Nunnery thereupon.

1679 M. Prance Addit. Narr. 11 English Gentlewomen,..who have a mind to take the Vail of Nunnery upon them.

b. Nunlike chastity. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

society > morality > virtue > purity > chastity > [noun]

kasté13..

chastityc1305

chasteheada1325

temperance1340

continencec1380

chastenessc1386

virginitya1400

violet1412

castimony1490

continency1526

chastice1567

nunnery1654

brahmacharya1787

moral restraint1803

1654 E. Gayton Pleasant Notes Don Quixot ii. vi. 60 Marcelas speech is a pure defence of resolv'd virginity, vow'd Nunnery [etc.].

3. A group of nuns. Chiefly figurative and in extended use. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > church government > monasticism > nun > [noun] > collectively

superfluitya1450

nunnery1600

1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. i. xx. 14 Numa..instituted also a Nunnerie as it were, of religious vestall virgines.

1651 J. Cleveland Poems (Wing C4684) 1 Not the fair Abbess of the skies, With all her Nunnery of eyes.

1706 T. Betterton Amorous Widow iii. 35 You have Sworn enough already to Corrupt a whole Nunnery, of Sighing, Praying and Wishing young Votaries.

1715 J. Addison Freeholder No. 15 (1751) 88 A Fan which has on it a Nunnery of lively black-ey'd Vestals.

a1874 J. F. O'Donnell Poems (1891) 41 Amid a nunnery of dewy flowers Walked the moist morning.

a1917 E. Thomas Coll. Poems (1979) 166 Walking among the nunneries Of many a myriad anemones In the close copses.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	nunnery
释义	nunneryn. Brit. /ˈnʌn(ə)ri/, U.S. /ˈnənəri/ Forms: α. Middle English nonerie, Middle English nonneriȝe, Middle English nonnery, Middle English nonnerye, Middle English–1500s nonery, Middle English–1600s nonnerie, 1500s noonery, 1700s nonnere; Scottish pre-1700 nonerie. β. Middle English nunnerye, Middle English 1600s nunery, Middle English 1600s nunnerie, 1500s– nunnery, 1600s nunn'ry (poetic); Scottish pre-1700 nunere, pre-1700 nunerie, pre-1700 1700s– nunnery. γ. Scottish pre-1700 nouneris (plural). Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: nun n.¹, -ery suffix. Etymology: < nun n.¹ + -ery suffix. Compare Anglo-Norman nonerye (late 14th cent. or earlier), and also French nonnerie (1803). Compare nunry n.The usual word in Old English is nunmynster (also nunnanmynster). 1. a. A place of residence for a community of nuns; a building or group of buildings in which nuns live as a religious community; a convent. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ society > faith > artefacts > monastic property (general) > monastery or convent > [noun] minstereOE monklifeeOE clausterc1000 abbotricOE house?a1160 anchor-house?c1225 religion?c1225 abbeyc1300 nunneryc1300 house (also abbey) of religiona1325 nunryc1325 closterc1330 cloister1340 monasterya1425 monk-house?c1475 friars1479 convent1528 guild1546 prioressy1575 abbey-stead1620 minchery1710 reclusory1821 akhara1838 house of piety1838 kloster1844 α. c1300 11000 Virgins (Laud) 148 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 91 And al þis compaygnie I-burede weren in Coloyne in one Nonnerie. c1325 (c1300) Chron. Robert of Gloucester (Calig.) 5735 (MED) King edgar & seint aþelwold..An oþer hous..hii rerde of seinte marie, Of womman of religyon & made a nonnerye. c1405 (c1390) G. Chaucer Reeve's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 48 For hir kynrede and hir nortelrye That she hadde lerned in the Nonnerye [v.rr. Nonerie, nunnerye]. a1425 Comm. in H. R. Bramley Rolle's Psalter (1884) 1 (MED) This same sauter..lyȝt in cheyn bondes in the same nonery. a1450 (a1338) R. Mannyng Chron. (Lamb.) (1887) i. 14225 Scheo ȝald hure til þat nonnerye [Fr. abaie], & tok þe veil for hure folye. 1485 Malory's Morte Darthur (Caxton) i. ii. sig. aij^v The thyrd syster morgan lefey was put to scole in a nonnery. 1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. cxxv. 151 The kyng of Englande was at Poissoy, and lay in the nonery there. 1561 Thirds of Benefices 53 For the thrid of the nonerie of the Senis. c1610–15 Life St. Sexburge in C. Horstmann Lives Women Saints (1886) 55 Her sister St. Etheldred..founder of that Nonnerie. a1770 T. Chatterton Compl. Wks. (1971) I. 22 This Broder was called evrich wheere To Kenshamm and to Brystol Nonnere. β. ?c1335 (a1300) Land of Cokaygne 148 in W. Heuser Kildare-Gedichte (1904) 149 An oþer abbei is þer bi For soþ a gret fair nunnerie.c1450 Jacob's Well (1900) 81 In a Nunnerye was a nunne þat..toke lownes, & made here as a fool & obeyid here to alle here sustren as here fool.?c1475 Catholicon Anglicum (BL Add. 15562) f. 87 A Nunery, cenobium, Abbay.1571 A. Jenkinson Early Voy. & Trav. (1886) I. 137 Not farre from the said Castle was a Nunnery of sumptuous building.1603 W. Shakespeare Hamlet iii. i. 123 Go to a Nunnery [1604 Nunry, 1623 Nunnerie] goe.1634 W. Habington Castara i. 2 Yee blushing Virgins [sc. roses] happy are In the chaste Nunn'ry of her brests.a1648 R. Crashaw Poems (1904) 360 Whose nest Was in the modest Nunnery of his brest.a1699 A. Halkett Autobiogr. (1875) 15 There was a nunery in Holland for those of the Protestant relligion.1718 Lady M. W. Montagu Let. May (1965) I. 408 Her Catholic Relations..would certainly confine her to a Nunnery for the rest of her Days.1771 T. Smollett Humphry Clinker I. 16 Liddy had been..cooped up in a boarding-school, which, next to a nunnery, is the worst kind of seminary that ever was contrived for young women.1800 S. Turner Acct. Embassy Court Teshoo Lama ii. viii. 312 Of nunneries, as well as monasteries, the number is considerable.1841 M. Elphinstone Hist. India I. ii. iv. 201 Nunneries for women seem also, at one time, to have been general.1884 J. Hall Christian Home 113 When no safety could be hoped for California girls but in nunnery schools.1915 V. Woolf Voy. Out xii. 191 She's been brought up practically in a nunnery.1959 H. Plutzik Apples from Shinar 49 Say nothing, or I will arrange to have you locked In that nunnery, Earth, where there's no more tumbling and tossing.1989 Theatre Res. Internat. 14 27 Donna Elvira leaves the stage to retire to a nunnery, a quite proper course of action for a lady who has compromised her honour.γ. a1500 Advocates' MS 25.4.14 f. 100, in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue at Nunerie [King David] mad mony castell and abbays chanonryis with sindry nouneris. b. slang. A brothel. Now historical. ΘΚΠ society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > prostitution > [noun] > brothel houseOE bordelc1300 whorehousec1330 stew1362 bordel housec1384 stewc1384 stivec1386 stew-house1436 bordelryc1450 brothel house1486 shop?1515 bains1541 common house1545 bawdy-house1552 hothouse1556 bordello1581 brothela1591 trugging house1591 trugging place1591 nunnery1593 vaulting-house1596 leaping house1598 Pickt-hatch1598 garden house1606 vaulting-school1606 flesh-shambles1608 whore-sty1621 bagnioa1640 public house1640 harlot-house1641 warrena1649 academy1650 call house1680 coney burrow1691 case1699 nanny-house1699 house of ill reputea1726 smuggling-ken1725 kip1766 Corinth1785 disorderly house1809 flash-house1816 dress house1823 nanny-shop1825 house of tolerance1842 whore shop1843 drum1846 introducing house1846 khazi1846 fast house1848 harlotry1849 maison de tolérance1852 knocking-shop1860 lupanar1864 assignation house1870 parlour house1871 hook shop1889 sporting house1894 meat house1896 massage parlour1906 case house1912 massage establishment1921 moll-shop1923 camp1925 notch house1926 creep joint1928 slaughterhouse1928 maison de convenance1930 cat-house1931 Bovril1936 maison close1939 joy-house1940 rib joint1940 gaff1947 maison de passe1960 rap parlour1973 1593 T. Nashe Christs Teares 79 b [To] some one Gentleman generally acquainted, they giue..free priuiledge thenceforward in theyr Nunnery, to procure them frequentance. 1594 Gesta Grayorum (1914) 12 Lucy Negro, Abbess de Clerkenwell, holdeth the Nunnery of Clerkenwell. a1625 J. Fletcher Mad Lover iv. ii, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. C4^v/1 Chi. Ther's an old Nunnerie at hand. Clo. What's that. Chi. A bawdie House. 1781 Compl. Mod. London Spy (title page) The characters of many well-known Persons who are now frequenters at Gaming-Houses, Bagnios, and other Nunneries, Night-Houses,..Taverns, [etc.]. 1785 F. Grose Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue Nunnery, a bawdy house. 1846 ‘Lord Chief Baron’ Swell's Night Guide (new ed.) 126/2 Nunnery, a brothel. 1977 J. T. Shipley In Praise of Eng. 194 To the antipapist Tudors nunnery was a slang term for a brothel. †2. a. The institution of convent life; nunship. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > monasticism > nun > [noun] > condition of being nunnerya1350 sisterheada1393 nunryc1450 sistership1535 sisterhood?1540 nunnishness1570 nunship1624 the veil1791 nunhooda1834 a1350 (?c1280) Conception of Mary (Ashm.) 161 in C. Horstmann Altengl. Legenden (1875) 1st Ser. 74 (MED) Heo was ibore In hire fader house..þat nouþe an abbei is In honourance of s. anne, of blake nonnerie. 1650 T. Fuller Pisgah-sight of Palestine ii. iii. 95 (margin) Nicolas Lyra in locum, with most Roman commentators since his time in hope to found Nunnery thereupon. 1679 M. Prance Addit. Narr. 11 English Gentlewomen,..who have a mind to take the Vail of Nunnery upon them. b. Nunlike chastity. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ society > morality > virtue > purity > chastity > [noun] kasté13.. chastityc1305 chasteheada1325 temperance1340 continencec1380 chastenessc1386 virginitya1400 violet1412 castimony1490 continency1526 chastice1567 nunnery1654 brahmacharya1787 moral restraint1803 1654 E. Gayton Pleasant Notes Don Quixot ii. vi. 60 Marcelas speech is a pure defence of resolv'd virginity, vow'd Nunnery [etc.]. 3. A group of nuns. Chiefly figurative and in extended use. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > monasticism > nun > [noun] > collectively superfluitya1450 nunnery1600 1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. i. xx. 14 Numa..instituted also a Nunnerie as it were, of religious vestall virgines. 1651 J. Cleveland Poems (Wing C4684) 1 Not the fair Abbess of the skies, With all her Nunnery of eyes. 1706 T. Betterton Amorous Widow iii. 35 You have Sworn enough already to Corrupt a whole Nunnery, of Sighing, Praying and Wishing young Votaries. 1715 J. Addison Freeholder No. 15 (1751) 88 A Fan which has on it a Nunnery of lively black-ey'd Vestals. a1874 J. F. O'Donnell Poems (1891) 41 Amid a nunnery of dewy flowers Walked the moist morning. a1917 E. Thomas Coll. Poems (1979) 166 Walking among the nunneries Of many a myriad anemones In the close copses. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.c1300
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