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† ˈnunry Obs.
Forms: α. 5 nonrie, 5–6 nonry, 6 nonnrye, nondry. β. 4–6 nunrye, 5–7 nunry (5 nvn-), 6 -ri(e.
[f. nun n.1 Cf. nunnery and -ry.]
A nunnery. Also attrib.
αc1440Alph. Tales 320 On a day sho come vnto þe nonrie yate. c1450St. Cuthbert (Surtees) 8139 Thare he made an Nonry. a1548Hall Chron., Hen. VIII 258 b, Hadington toune with the Friers and Nonry. 1550Bale Eng. Votaries i. 42 Both men and women dwellyng to⁓gyther sell by sell (as the maner was than of all Nondryes in England).
β1389Eng. Gilds (1870) 43 To ye nunrye of Carrowe. c1425Hampole's Psalter Metr. Pref. 29 In Ȝork shyre þis nvnry ys. 1538–9Wriothesley Chron. (Camden) I. 93 In this moneth the nunrye of St. Helins..was suppressed. 1577–87Holinshed Chron. III. 963/1 The same daie was Haddington burnt, with a great nunrie and house of friers there. 1629Maxwell tr. Herodian (1635) 299 He violently tooke out of Vestaes sacred nunry at Rome a Vestall Virgin. 1639Drummond of Hawthornden Consid. to Parl. Wks. (1711) 186 That all Bishops Houses, Concierges, Abbays, and Nunries, be made Places to entertain Souldiers. |