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adj
Pertaining to a convent or convent life; cloistered, monastic.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
A member of a convent.
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noun
A member of one of the two divisions of the Franciscans, following a mitigated rule, the other being the Observants.
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adjective satellite
of communal life sequestered from the world under religious vows
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: cloistered, cloistral, monastic, monastical
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History
From Medieval Latin conventuālis, from Latin conventus (“convent”).
