Crossword-Solution: ABBEYS
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Abbeys | pl. | of Abbey |
We have 23 clues for the answer “ABBEYS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Monks' milieus | 1 answer |
| Where brothers and sisters hang out | 1 answer |
| Westminster, etc. | 1 answer |
| St. Mary's and others | 1 answer |
| Some monasteries | 1 answer |
| Sisters' homes | 1 answer |
| Places with cloisters | 1 answer |
| Nuns' homes | 1 answer |
| Monks' residences | 1 answer |
| Monks' milieux | 1 answer |
| Centers of learning in the Dark Ages | 1 answer |
| Monk's homes | 1 answer |
| Monk habitats | 1 answer |
| Monastery churches | 1 answer |
| Monasteries or convents | 1 answer |
| Homes for nuns | 1 answer |
| Homes for monks | 1 answer |
| Certain cloisters | 1 answer |
| Monasteries | 2 answers |
| Religious retreats | 2 answers |
| Some retreats | 2 answers |
| Convents. | 2 answers |
| Cloisters | 2 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
The transparent part of the coat of the eyeball which
covers the iris and pupil and admits light to the interior. See Eye.
Hint 2 anagram
AROCEN
Hint 3 another clue
COVER THE EYES
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Sentences with ABBEYS (5)
For the hard energy of the man in all public matters has possessed the imagination of the world; he remains for posterity in certain traditional phrases, browbeating Queen Mary, or breaking beautiful carved work in abbeys and cathedrals, that had long smoked themselves out and were no more than sorry ruins, while he was still quietly teaching children in a country gentleman’s family.
All the bishoprics and abbeys which had been secularized BEFORE the peace, remained with the Protestants; but, by an express clause, the unreformed Catholics provided that none should thereafter be secularized.
LXXXVIII Of her the good archangel made demand What way in search of Silence to pursue: Who said; "He with the Virtues once was scanned Nor dwelt elsewhere; aye guested by the crew Of Benedict, or blest Elias' band, When abbeys and when convent-cells were new; And whilom in the schools long time did pass, With sage Archytas and Pythagorus.
Dunstan, being still the real king, drove all married priests out of the monasteries and abbeys, and replaced them by solitary monks like himself, of the rigid order called the Benedictines.
Some of the Murdocks took a leading part in the construction of the abbeys and cathedrals of the North;[2] others were known as mechanics; but the greater number were farmers.
Quotes with ABBEYS (3)
If I were you, Mr Lascelles," said Childermass, softly, "I would speak more guardedly. You are in the north now. In John Uskglass's own country. Our towns and cities and abbeys were built by him. Our laws were made by him. He is in our minds and hearts andspeech. Were it summer you would see a carpet of tiny flowers beneath every hedgerow, of a bluish-white colour. We call them John's Farthings. When the weather is contrary and we have warm weather in winter or it rains in su…
Mental discipline, prayer and remoteness from the world and its disturbing visions reduce temptation to a minimum, but they can never entirely abolish it. In medieval traditions, abbeys and convents were always considered to be expugnable centres of revolt against infernal dominion on earth. They became, accordingly, special targets. Satan, issuing orders at nightfall to his foul precurrers, was rumoured to dispatch to capital cities only one junior fiend. This solitary demon…
The British Isles are awash with the choice of beautiful historic churches, abbeys, and cathedrals where one king or another has tied the knot and bestowed a royal precedent.
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Appears in: Crossroads, CrosSynergy, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY.
Used 34 times in crossword archives (1963–2025).