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Answer for the clue "Boring nun made to dance ", 7 letters:
mundane

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Word definitions for mundane in dictionaries

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-15c., "of this world," from Old French mondain "of this world, worldly, earthly, secular;" also "pure, clean; noble, generous" (12c.), from Late Latin mundanus "belonging to the world" (as distinct from the Church), in classical Latin "a citizen of ...

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES mundane chores (= ordinary and uninteresting ) ▪ the mundane chores of everyday life COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADVERB more ▪ Their priorities would have been quite different - more mundane , more limited in scope, ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
adj. found in the ordinary course of events; "a placid everyday scene"; "it was a routine day"; "there's nothing quite like a real...train conductor to add color to a quotidian commute"- Anita Diamant [syn: everyday , quotidian , routine , unremarkable ...

Usage examples of mundane.

A concept introduced into the culture, like the Anachronists, to allow a mundane society some practice in the idea of shifting worlds and cultures?

The Liringlas mother sings the song she has chosen through the course of each day, through mundane events, in quiet moments when she is alone, before each morning aubade, after each evening vesper.

I had to reach you, before the Mundanes get to the baobab tree and wipe out all the bottled spells or use them against us!

Often the entries are mundane, ranging from recipes and auto-repair tips to lamentations over the blogger s love life.

I am well aware that the gold taken off Bonanza possesses special properties, the loss of which no amount of mundane silver and gold can make good.

After watching Adam and the dolphins together, I was convinced that they were communicating in some method indiscernible to my mundane senses, the way the Bunraku puppeteers had communicated with me while I was pregnant.

The northern constellation Draco, whose sinuosities wind like a river through the wintry bear, was made the astronomical cincture of the Universe, as the serpent encircles the mundane egg in Egyptian hieroglyphics.

He had learned weeks ago that when he was barred from doing anything to help Dinah, he had to keep himself busy with mundane activities.

The mundane offering of the Collect was done by means of electronic funds transfers, from the eft tokens all bore with them when visiting Virtu.

In spite of the bright, grainy, mundane light of morning, which is support to chase all fancies away and dissolve all troubling fantasms, the ball was still frozen there in midair, motionless, exactly the same way it had been the night before.

The priest imagined busloads of pilgrims bent on divinely inspired chastisements and evangelical devotional fever, hailing the advent of Mother Mary, saluting a cardboard ephemeral church, Ann as substitute for authentic worship, for the mundane daily variety of faith that composed his own enervated ministry.

The room was dark, lit only by entirely mundane lanterns, for Kermis was worried that any use of the Art Magickal would interfere with the delicate operation of the Art Khemitic.

Remember my 2 percent rule and you will be among those who are ultimately written about as major success stories: 98 percent of the marketing you see, hear and perceive is mundane, mediocre and boring.

Other men cut leather shapes from hides stretched on the ground, braided thongs into ropes, worked with bronze chisel and adze and stone scraper on the growing frame of a chariot, knapped stone into everyday tools for tasks too mundane to rate the precious bronze.

As Deiley continued his reading, he became convinced that the main piece in this 300-year-old puzzle was not the gifted professor but the riped woman who gratefully and efficiently went about her mundane domestic duties.