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Sepulchrine

Sepulchrine adjective: pertaining to Canons or Canonesses Regular of the Holy Sepulchre.

Adjective

Sepulchrine (not comparable)

  1. Pertaining to Canons or Canonesses Regular of the Holy Sepulchre.
    • Table 3.2 shows that the Sepulchrine nuns owned chant books from a mixture of French and Flemish centres. / Table 3.2 / Printed chant books owned by the Canonesses of the Holy Sepulchre, Liège / Such crossover concerned not just new[…]2016 April 8, T.E. Muir, Roman Catholic Church Music in England, 1791–1914: A Handmaid of the Liturgy?, Routledge, →ISBN
    • For some years previously, he had been confessor to the community of English Sepulchrine nuns whose convent, first founded in Liège in 1642, was situated in the Faubourg d'Avroy in the lower part of the city. By the brief of suppression[…]2016 May 6, Maurice Whitehead, English Jesuit Education: Expulsion, Suppression, Survival and Restoration, 1762-1803, Routledge, →ISBN

Examples of Sepulchrine in a sentence

  • Authorial Identity Much of the content in the Sepulchrine manuscripts is anonymous, however a small number of contributors have been identified.2018 November 26, James E. Kelly, Hannah Thomas, Jesuit Intellectual and Physical Exchange between England and Mainland Europe, c....
  • Warner left a Sepulchrine house and had not yet been clothed among the Poor Clares.2019 February 7, Liesbeth Corens, Confessional Mobility and English Catholics in Counter-Reformation Europe, Oxford University Press, USA...
  • At that time the Sepulchrine order was experiencing a period of expansion in northern France, sparked by the emergence of a vigorous Catholic renewal movement in the region.2022 October 18, Bronagh Ann McShane, Irish Women in Religious Orders, 1530-1700: Suppression, Migration and Reintegration, Boydell &...

Questions about Sepulchrine

What does Sepulchrine mean?
Sepulchrine means pertaining to Canons or Canonesses Regular of the Holy Sepulchre.
How do you use Sepulchrine in a sentence?
Authorial Identity Much of the content in the Sepulchrine manuscripts is anonymous, however a small number of contributors have been identified.
What part of speech is Sepulchrine?
Sepulchrine is an adjective.

Words near Sepulchrine in the dictionary

  1. sepulchre
  2. sepulchred
  3. Sepulchrer
  4. Sepulchrers
  5. sepulchres
  6. Sepulchrine
  7. sepulchring
  8. sepulchrous
  9. sepult
  10. sepultural
  11. sepulture

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