conventual

UK /kənˈvɛntjuːəl/ US /kənˈvɛnt͡ʃuəl/
noun 2adj 1

Definitions

adj

1

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

1

A member of a convent.

noun

1

A member of one of the two divisions of the Franciscans, following a mitigated rule, the other being the Observants.

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