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Crossword-Solution: TONSURE 7 letters, 43 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 7

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Word Word Type Definition
Tonsure n. The act of clipping the hair, or of shaving the crown of
the head; also, the state of being shorn.
Tonsure n. The first ceremony used for devoting a person to the
service of God and the church; the first degree of the clericate, given
by a bishop, abbot, or cardinal priest, consisting in cutting off the
hair from a circular space at the back of the head, with prayers and
benedictions; hence, entrance or admission into minor orders.
Tonsure n. The shaven corona, or crown, which priests wear as a mark
of their order and of their rank.

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TONSURE anagram NOTSURE, NUESTRO, SNOUTER

We have 43 clues for the answer “TONSURE”

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Ritual shaving of the head 1 answer
Monk's bald spot 1 answer
Monk's feature 1 answer
Monk's haircut 1 answer
Monk's hairdo 1 answer
Monk's hairstyle 1 answer
Monk's shaved head 1 answer
Monk's shaven crown. 1 answer
Monk's trademark 1 answer
Monkish do 1 answer
Part of a Buddhist monk's ordination 1 answer
Monk hairstyle 1 answer
Shaved area of a monk's head 1 answer
Shaved crown 1 answer
Shaven crown. 1 answer
Shaven patch. 1 answer
Shaven pate. 1 answer
Shaving of a monk's head 1 answer
Shaving of the head 1 answer
St. Francis' shaven crown 1 answer
Substantial cutting 1 answer
shaving the crown of the head by priests or members of a monastic order 1 answer
Monastic haircut 1 answer
BARE part of head 1 answer
Bald spot 1 answer
Brother's hairstyle 1 answer
Capuchin's haircut. 1 answer
Clerical clipping 1 answer
Clerical hair style 1 answer
Clipping of a sort 1 answer
Close relative of a crew cut. 1 answer
HAIRCUT denoting monastic life 1 answer
HOLY orders, admission to (fig.) 1 answer
Haircut for a fra 1 answer
Haircut of a sort. 1 answer
Haircut-plus 1 answer
Head shave 1 answer
Monastery clip 1 answer
Monastic do 1 answer
Barber's job 6 answers
CLOSELY SHAVED RECENTLY 10 answers
A CLOSELY CROPPED HAIRCUT 10 answers
Haircut 11 answers
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One who, or that which, eats.
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Sentences with TONSURE (5)

Here many a scull is riven, here men take more Than monkish tonsure at the warrior's hands: Heads fly and arms; and to the ditch a flood Runs streaming from the wall of crimson blood.
Orlando Furioso Lodovico Ariosto 1996
While the wretched man's heart is thus filled with woe and only the sorrowing Muses bedew their cheeks with tears, in his strait is heard on every side the wailing appeal to us, and to avoid the danger of impending death he shows the slight sign of the ancient tonsure which we bestowed upon him, begging that we may be called to his aid and bear witness to the privilege bestowed upon him.
The Philobiblon of Richard de Bury Richard de Bury 1996
The venerable Egbert about this time converted the monks of Iona to the right faith, in the regulation of Easter, and the ecclesiastical tonsure.
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle Unknown 1996
The crown was involved more than the sides, and in many instances the resemblance to a monk's tonsure was striking.
The Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki United States 1996
The circular tonsure was sacred and mysterious; it was the crown of thorns; but it was likewise a royal diadem, and every priest was a king, &c., (Thomassin, Discipline de l’Eglise, tom.
The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Edward Gibbon 1996

Quotes with TONSURE (1)

This was all very well: Columbanus's success indicates the appeal of his mission. But his activities, for the first time, brought the nature of Celtic monasticism firmly to the attention of the Church authorities -- to western bishops in general, and to the Bishop of Rome in particular. The Irish monks were not heretical. But they were plainly unorthodox. They did not look right, to begin with. They had the wrong tonsure. Rome, as was natural, had 'the tonsure of St Peter', t…
Paul Johnson A History of Christianity
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Appears in: Boston Globe, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.

Used 32 times in crossword archives (1942–2025).