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Monasteries? First concerns, no sex!
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priories
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Priory \Pri"o*ry\, n.; pl. Priories . [Cf. LL. prioria. See Prior , n.] A religious house presided over by a prior or prioress; -- sometimes an offshoot of, an subordinate to, an abbey, and called also cell , and obedience . See Cell , 2. Note: Of such ...
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n. (plural of priory English)
Usage examples of priories.
I've visited as many abbeys and convents and priories on the energy grid as I could locate.
She stayed in several priories before she settled at Davington and I met her.
Master Li swore that the insult had last been delivered during the Usurpation of Wang Mang, and he was willing to bet that at some point in her wanderings Grief of Dawn had found work in one of the moldy priories where antiquated old maids preserve ancient sayings and customs they learned from their great-great-grandmothers.
In the Holy City we visited all the most sacred places, and going and returning we lodged whenever we could in abbeys and priories, and everywhere my master was accepted for a good and pious man, and paid his way honestly, and was well regarded.
We would give up our lives for his benefiting, while ye are content to lie snug in your abbeys and priories let reign who will.