Definition of "nunneries" []

• Plural form of nunnery. (noun)

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• "The brothers were promptly beheaded, though one of them was an ecclesiastic, and the ladies were confined in English nunneries."
• "Roman Priests be at liberty to perpetrate every deed of darkness in impenetrable recesses called nunneries?"
• "Residents in the Ganzi region said in recent interviews that large numbers of paramilitary police were deployed there following the 2008 unrest, and have been used to suppress Tibetan monastic activities across the region, where brightly painted monasteries and nunneries dot the rugged countryside."