conventual
Americanadjective
noun
Other Word Forms
- conventually adjective
Etymology
Origin of conventual
1375–1425; late Middle English < Medieval Latin conventuālis, equivalent to Latin conventu-, stem of conventus convent + -ālis -al 1
Example Sentences
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Out of that beginning grew orders of deaconesses for service and of conventual nuns for contemplation.
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Such tales so stirred up Massachusetts that a nunnery inspection committee was appointed to nose out conventual enormities.
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She greatly admired Frank de Lacey, who had built himself a hut in the woods and went there to meditate, but she was not ready for so conventual a life.
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Greying Anglo-Saxon Scholar Ayres, who began teaching at Columbia in 1908, must combine the talents of a hotelkeeper, a national planner, a circus ringmaster and a conventual supervisor of morals.
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This gratified the jealousy of the conventual branch of the Franciscans and many of the secular clergy, who spread the scandal far and wide.
From A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume II by Lea, Henry Charles
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