conventual
Collocations
4ADJ.
empty
CONVENTUAL + NOUN
austerity
PREP.
in
ADV.
positively
Definitions
adj
Pertaining to a convent or convent life; cloistered, monastic.
The noise of her steps, light as they were, attracted the stranger's notice, who, turning round and letting her mantle fall as she did so, showed a tall and stately figure, dressed in what appeared to be some conventual costume.
The Sunday Times has convinced me I ought to immediately start out on a new regime of positively conventual austerity in order to reduce the burden on a strained NHS by not forcing them to have to cope with my ling cancer or coronary.
noun
A member of a convent.
noun
A member of one of the two divisions of the Franciscans, following a mitigated rule, the other being the Observants.
Thesaurus
Synonyms
adjective — of communal life sequestered from the world under religious
- cloistered
- cloistral
- monastic
- monastical
Antonyms
Idioms & Phrases
Example Bank
3The noise of her steps, light as they were, attracted the stranger's notice, who, turning round and letting her mantle fall as she did so, showed a tall and stately figure, dressed in what appeared to
WiktionaryThe Sunday Times has convinced me I ought to immediately start out on a new regime of positively conventual austerity in order to reduce the burden on a strained NHS by not forcing them to have to cop
WiktionaryThe Breton Club resumed its meetings in the refectory of an empty conventual building in the rue Saint-Jacques.
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