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noun

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Recent Examples of conventual
Adjective
But degraded conventual forces could drive Putin to other means of exerting force. Matt Seyler, ABC News, 10 May 2022 The Rev. Brad Heckathorne, a Conventual Franciscan friar, performed the ceremony at the chapel at Duke University. New York Times, 23 Apr. 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for conventual
Adjective
  • The menu positions itself as monastic simplicity, a reference to the monasteries in the hills above the town.
    Paul Caputo, Forbes.com, 4 July 2025
  • The wide-ranging punishments for such sinful behavior could include a prohibition on wearing gold and other precious jewelry, as well as large tithes to monastic orders and the poor.
    Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 6 June 2025
Noun
  • Matrix by Lauren Groff Currents of violence and devotion coalesce around Marie de France, a 17-year-old sent to be the new prioress of a 12th-century English abbey.
    Mia Barzilay Freund, Vogue, 7 July 2025
  • In response, the diocese said in a statement that the Holy See has acted toward healing the Arlington Carmel and the nuns in the community and not simply the former prioress and her former councilors.
    Elizabeth Campbell, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 21 Apr. 2024
Adjective
  • In response, a new form of religious life emerged: the mendicant friars.
    Joanne M. Pierce, The Conversation, 27 May 2025
  • The first mendicant orders, like the Franciscans and Dominicans, received papal approval in the early 13th century.
    Joanne M. Pierce, The Conversation, 27 May 2025
Adjective
  • The complaint says he’s previously fought for the legal right to use sacramental plant medicines religiously.
    Julia Marnin, Sacbee.com, 3 June 2025
  • Anand is a neurologist and the author of The Mind Electric, out in June 2025 Within the walls of a hospital, privacy is sacred—the intimate details of someone’s body and illness are meant to be as carefully guarded, as quietly delivered, as a sacramental confession.
    Pria Anand, TIME, 18 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Hildegard von Bingen, a Benedictine abbess and eventual saint, lived in the Middle Ages, when women’s lives were severely restricted.
    Faith Hill, The Atlantic, 2 June 2025
  • The 12th-century abbess, composer, philosopher, and visionary becomes a thrilling subject when backed by modular synths, Ukrainian folk singing, and high medieval music.
    Nina Corcoran, Pitchfork, 30 May 2025
Adjective
  • Political and religious leaders such as Malafaia and Magno Malta embrace a vengeful Jesus willing to strike down non-believers and perceived enemies of God.
    Emi Eleode, Time, 14 July 2025
  • Those generally include religious organizations like churches, synagogues, temples, and mosques in the U.S., as well as domestic nonprofit schools and hospitals.
    Kelly Phillips Erb, Forbes.com, 14 July 2025
Noun
  • In the medieval church, women’s roles were limited – usually some form of enclosure and celibacy, such as becoming an anchoress walled up alone for life, or a nun in a classic convent.
    Joelle Rollo-Koster, The Conversation, 25 Feb. 2025
  • Louise, a former anchoress, is her humble, tyrannical maid.
    Hervé Guibert, Harper's Magazine, 2 Nov. 2024
Adjective
  • Because the actual date of the spring equinox can differ by a day or two, the Catholic Church created a fixed date of March 21 to define it, known as the ecclesiastical equinox.
    Kaycee Sloan, The Enquirer, 2 July 2025
  • The first, known as the ecclesiastical abstention doctrine, argued the SBC is exempt from a court outside the denomination ruling on an internal church disciplinary matter.
    Liam Adams, The Tennessean, 2 July 2025

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“Conventual.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/conventual. Accessed 22 Jul. 2025.

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