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noun

Convent n.

1.

A coming together; a meeting. (Obs.) "A usual ceremony at their (the witches) convents or meetings."

2.

An association or community of recluses devoted to a religious life; a body of monks or nuns. "One of our convent, and his (the duke's) confessor."

3.

A house occupied by a community of religious recluses; a monastery or nunnery. "One seldom finds in Italy a spot of ground more agreeable than ordinary that is not covered with a convent."

Synonyms: Nunnery; monastery; abbey. See Cloister.

verb

Convent v. t. To call before a judge or judicature; to summon; to convene. (Obs.)

Convent v. i.

1.

To meet together; to concur. (obs.)

2.

To be convenient; to serve. (Obs.) "When that is known and golden time convents."

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"Convent" Quotes from Famous Books

... to the summit of Etna during the time of an eruption. On my way, I slept at one of the convents on the slope of the mountain. I was roused from my sleep by a midnight clamour in the court of the convent—the monks were fluttering in all corners, like frightened chickens. I came down from my chamber, and was told the cause of the alarm in the sudden turn of a stream of the eruption towards the convent. I laughed at the idea of hazard from such a source, when the building was one mass of stone, ...

— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 349, November, 1844 • Various

... leaving you," she said, as she kissed them, "but it was M. Lordonnot, the architect of the Sacred Heart Convent. I cultivate him for the sake of my collections. Thanks to him I had forty-eight pounds you know last time. That's very good: Mme. de Berthival has never reached thirty-two pounds. I'm so glad to see you; it's very nice of you to ...

— Rene Mauperin • Edmond de Goncourt and Jules de Goncourt

... effectual, they would take cognizance of the gipsy who had led him astray; and observed, by way of contrast, that if such a preposterous intrigue had happened in France, she would have been clapped up in a convent two years ago. Our lover's eyes kindled with indignation, when he heard his mistress treated with such irreverence: he could scarce refrain from inflicting manual chastisement on the blasphemer, whom he reproached in his wrath as ...

— The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle, Volume I • Tobias Smollett

... the violin and clavier enabled him to retain his place in the school and to enjoy the educational advantages which it offered. He was working hard at his musical studies, spending a portion of each day in the convent library, where the works of the best composers were to be found. But all his thoughts and aspirations were beginning to centre themselves upon the instrument which, before all others, had the power to stir his musical soul to its depths. His love for ...

— Story-Lives of Great Musicians • Francis Jameson Rowbotham

... returned. 'All right,' he said; 'there have been no Prussians here for three days. It is a sinister place, is this village. I have been talking to a Sister of Mercy, who is attending to four or five wounded men in an abandoned convent.' ...

— Selected Writings of Guy de Maupassant • Guy de Maupassant

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