Definition of Convent

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Convent

A coming together; a meeting.

An association or community of recluses devoted to a religious life; a body of monks or nuns.

A house occupied by a community of religious recluses; a monastery or nunnery.

To meet together; to concur.

To be convenient; to serve.

To call before a judge or judicature; to summon; to convene.

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Convent Quotations

Convent - a place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness.
Ambrose Bierce

I was in a convent for a year.
Beatrice Wood

My mother had been educated at a convent, and she had been converted to communism by my father during Stalin's most rampant period, at the beginning of the 1930s. So she had two gods, God in heaven and god on earth.
Guillermo Cabrera Infante

Before I took the veil, I was ornamented for the ceremony, and was clothed in a rich dress belonging to the Convent, which was used on such occasions; and placed not far from the altar in the chapel, in the view of a number of spectators who had assembled, perhaps about forty.
Maria Monk

She gave me another piece of information which excited other feelings in me, scarcely less dreadful. Infants were sometimes born in the convent; but they were always baptized and immediately strangled!
Maria Monk

So far as I know, there were no pains taken to preserve secrecy on this subject; that is, I saw no attempt made to keep any of the inmates of the Convent in ignorance of the murder of children.
Maria Monk

We were kept at work, and permitted to speak with each other only on such subjects as related to the Convent, and all in the hearing of the old nuns who sat by us.
Maria Monk

After I left the convent, for 15 years I was worn out with religion, I wanted nothing whatever to do with it. I felt disgusted with it. If I saw someone reading a religious book on a train, I'd think, how awful.
Karen Armstrong

That's the great thing about entering a convent: There are things that you simply can't do, so you don't have to worry about them.
Lars von Trier

Convent Translations

convent in German is Kloster
convent in Latin is monasterium
convent in Swedish is kloster, nunnekloster

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