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Benedictines

Benedictines is the plural of Benedictine.

Meaning of Benedictine

Noun

Benedictine (plural Benedictines)

  1. A monk or nun belonging to the order founded by Saint Benedict of Nursia.
    • Some of her most interesting remarks on writing appear in her letters to Sister Mariella Gable, a strong-minded Minnesota Benedictine who admired O'Connor greatly. In the fifties, O'Connor tells a friend, when Sister Mariella's bishop ordered her to stop teaching Catcher in the Rye, she defied him...1981 February 14, Peg Cruikshank, “The Warmth Shines Through”, in Gay Community News, volume 8, number 29, page 15
  2. A type of liqueur originating from the Benedictine cloister of Fécamp in France, made from cognac together with herb and spice extracts.
    • Cripps differed from Partridge there, and proceeded to prove, by personal instances, that the safest thing for a man to drink was benedictine.1913, Norman Lindsay, A Curate in Bohemia, Sydney: N.S.W. Bookstall Co., published 1932, page 137

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Benedictines is the plural of Benedictine.

Words near Benedictines in the dictionary

  1. Benedict's tests
  2. Benedicta
  3. benedicted
  4. Benedictin
  5. Benedictine
  6. Benedictines
  7. benedicting
  8. Benedictinism
  9. Benedictins
  10. benediction
  11. benedictional

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