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Sister of Charity
noun
, Roman Catholic Church.
- a member of one of several congregations of sisters founded in 1634 by St. Vincent de Paul.
- any of several other orders of nuns devoted to teaching, care of the sick, etc.
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Example Sentences
She is what you’d call a forbidding nun, a Sister of Charity without much of it.
From New York Times
It was in the summer of 1972 that Canan, a recent graduate of Syracuse University, first met the Sister of Charity, a nurse at the East Coast Migrant Health Project in North Carolina.
From Washington Post
She is a Sister of Charity, and maybe that is why she is so kind and says yes, she will put us wherever there is a spot.
From Literature
"I married a Sister of Charity."
From Literature
She started out as a Sister of Charity, the religious order that established the school in a tiny brick building in 1913, then moved to a larger, modern structure in 1965.
From New York Times
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