conventual

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See also: Conventual

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Medieval Latin conventualis, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin conventus (“convent”).

Pronunciation

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Adjective

conventual (comparative more conventual, superlative most conventual)

  1. Pertaining to a convent or convent life; cloistered, monastic.
    • 1976, Angela Carter, ‘Health on the Brain’, in Shaking a Leg, Vintage 2013, p. 82:
      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.
    • 1992, Hilary Mantel, A Place of Greater Safety, Harper Perennial 2007, p. 267:
      The Breton Club resumed its meetings in the refectory of an empty conventual building in the rue Saint-Jacques.

Synonyms

Derived terms

Noun

conventual (plural conventuals)

  1. A member of a convent.

Spanish

Adjective

conventual m or f (masculine and feminine plural conventuales)

  1. conventual (pertaining to a convent)
    • 2015 September 21, “Quito reitera su riqueza histórica”, in El País‎[1]:
      La semana pasada, el arquitecto de profesión desnudó los edificios conventuales de las órdenes religiosas que recalaron en la urbe y subrayó los “crímenes contra el patrimonio” cometidos por los presidentes de la época republicana, que intervinieron estos edificios.
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