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See them In Morlaix, France, restorations of the Jacobin convent revealed hidden paintings beneath plaster, dating back to the 13th century.
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Stories By Real-Time News Team, With Ai Summarization, Miami Herald, 28 Mar. 2025
Coventry attended an all-girls convent school in the Zimbabwean capital, Harare.
—Gerald Imray, Chicago Tribune, 20 Mar. 2025
Several prostitutes rented tenements from the convent of St. Catherine, and Marguerite Busaffi, daughter of a prominent banker, owned a brothel in the city.
—Joelle Rollo-Koster, The Conversation, 25 Feb. 2025
Indika opens with a star-collecting minigame, and flashbacks to the heroine’s life before the convent are told in pixel art scenes that feature other minigames.
—The New York Times, New York Times, 27 Dec. 2024
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Stories By Real-Time News Team, With Ai Summarization, Miami Herald, 28 Mar. 2025
Coventry attended an all-girls convent school in the Zimbabwean capital, Harare.
—Gerald Imray, Chicago Tribune, 20 Mar. 2025
Several prostitutes rented tenements from the convent of St. Catherine, and Marguerite Busaffi, daughter of a prominent banker, owned a brothel in the city.
—Joelle Rollo-Koster, The Conversation, 25 Feb. 2025
Indika opens with a star-collecting minigame, and flashbacks to the heroine’s life before the convent are told in pixel art scenes that feature other minigames.
—The New York Times, New York Times, 27 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for convent
Noun
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When Kaldi shared the berries with an abbot of a local monastery, the monk ended up wide awake during the evening prayers.—
Marta Zaraska,
Smithsonian Magazine,
1 Apr. 2025
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It was also felt in neighboring countries, including Thailand. March 28, 2025 At a Buddhist monastery in Pindaya, about 70 miles from the epicenter, women wailed as the spire atop a century-old golden dome called a stupa toppled over, one of several that were damaged there.—
Sui-Lee Wee,
New York Times,
28 Mar. 2025
Noun
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The wide open space of the glorious Sistine Chapel, wonderful ornate cloisters and marble staircases needed a flip side to them.—
Bill Desowitz,
IndieWire,
17 Feb. 2025
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Christian intellectuals increasingly accepted input from classical and contemporary non-Christian sources, particularly in emerging urban schools, which were beginning to replace monastic cloisters as centers of learning in Europe.—
Livia Gershon,
JSTOR Daily,
25 Nov. 2024
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Critics pointed to his role in the dissolution of the monasteries, an initiative of the English Reformation that saw most of the kingdom’s abbeys and priories shut down, their art and relics destroyed and their wealth diverted to fill the king’s coffers.—
Meilan Solly,
Smithsonian Magazine,
20 Mar. 2025
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He was tutored by men from the Dominican order and he was baptized at St. Gertrude, a Dominican priory in Cincinnati.—
Paul Elie,
The New Yorker,
11 Feb. 2025
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“Convent.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/convent. Accessed 16 Apr. 2025.
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