Crossword-Solution: NUNNERIES 9 letters, 6 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

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Nunneries pl. of Nunnery

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Locations in "Agnes of God" and "The Sound of Music" 1 answer
Mothers and sisters place 1 answer
Novices' places 1 answer
Where habits are picked up? 1 answer
Where some vows are taken 1 answer
Convents. 2 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
MECAZE
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eruption
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Sentences with NUNNERIES (5)

When I hint a dislike of nunneries for young girls who abjure the world before they have ever proved or known it; or doubt the _ex officio_ sanctity of all Priests and Friars; I do no more than many conscientious Catholics both abroad and at home.
Pictures from Italy Charles Dickens 2013
Thus, Ithamore: This even they use in Malta here,--'tis call'd Saint Jaques' Even,--and then, I say, they use To send their alms unto the nunneries: Among the rest, bear this, and set it there: There's a dark entry where they take it in, Where they must neither see the messenger, Nor make inquiry who hath sent it them.
The Jew of Malta Christopher Marlowe 1997
Marcella cared nothing for men’s admiration, and yet, instead of retiring to one of those nunneries which are founded for her kind, she chose to rove the mountains, causing despair to all the shepherds.
Zuleika Dobson Max Beerbohm 1999
And yet, when all is said, is it more cruel to offer up victims to the gods than to torture them in the vaults of the Holy Office or to immure them in the walls of nunneries? When I had lived a month in Tobasco I had learned enough of the language to talk with Marina, with whom I grew friendly, though no more, and it was from her that I gathered the most of my knowledge, and also many hints as to the conduct necessary to my safety.
Montezuma’s Daughter H. Rider Haggard 1999
Take, then, this work as you would take a group of statue, certain features of which an artist could omit, and he would be the biggest of all big fools if he puts leaves upon them, seeing that these said works are not, any more than is this book, intended for nunneries.
Droll Stories, Volume 1 Honore de Balzac 2004

Quotes with NUNNERIES (3)

My brave husband came back from fighting the Turks and brought me a robe of silk and a necklace of human teeth. He sat up at night by his hearth telling tales of battle. Apparently the Turks are ten times more ferocious and fearless than the Scots. 'Perhaps we should invite them here to drive the Scots back,' I suggested, and he laughed, but he didn't kiss me. That's when I learned the truth about scars. A man with a battle scar is a veteran, a hero, given an honoured place a…
Karen Maitland Company of Liars
Oh, no, Cameron; I believe we're born free of sin and free of guilt. It's just that we all catch it, eventually. There are no clean rooms for morality, Cameron, no boys in bubbles kept in a guilt-free sterile zone. There are monasteries and nunneries, and people become recluses, but even that's just an elegant way of giving up. Washing one's hand didn't work two thousand years ago, and it doesn't work today. Involvement, Cameron, connection.
Iain Banks Complicity
For about 48 weeks of the year an asparagus plant is unrecognizable to anyone except an asparagus grower. Plenty of summer visitors to our garden have stood in the middle of the bed and asked, 'What is this stuff? It's beautiful!' We tell them its the asparagus patch, and they reply, 'No this, these feathery little trees.' An asparagus spear only looks like its picture for one day of its life, usually in April, give or take a month as you travel from the Mason-Dixon Line. The…
Barbara Kingsolver Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life
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Appears in: LAT, NYT, Universal.

Used 4 times in crossword archives (1999–2018).