Sister of Charity

: a member of a Roman Catholic sisterhood founded in France by St. Vincent de Paul in 1634 for nursing the sick

Word History

Etymology

translation of French sœur de charité

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Rhymes for Sister of Charity

• collinearity
• dissimilarity
• particularity
• barbarity
• multicollinearity