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Definition of beguinage in English: beguinagenounˈbeɪɡɪnədʒbeɪɡɪˈnɑːʒ A house for members of a lay sisterhood in the Low Countries. Example sentencesExamples - In the twelfth century there was a sudden multiplication of women's hospices, houses of reclusion, and beguinages of all sizes.
- Ales Malachine, who worked at the beguinage, was a wool comber.
- The Dutch revolt against Spain in the sixteenth century broke the continuity of beguinages, even though some persisted through the nineteenth century.
- Beguinages provided a home for women who wished to live chastely and piously with other women while also working in the urban economy, and who chose not to take permanent religious vows.
- The Counterreformation helped establish new charitable institutions, the case di carita, that were geared toward the support of single women from the lower classes but also allowed some upper-class women a retreat from marriage (in ways that resemble the beguinages of northern Europe).
- After rather informal beginnings in a context of religious independence and women's work, beguinages became large, well-established institutions by the fourteenth century.
- He has looked at archival manuscripts from some 300 communities, and further research on beguinages will have to begin with his findings.
- The Beguines were free to leave the beguinage and resume their old lives when their husbands returned from war.
- There were also a few men resident in the beguinage of St Elizabeth of Lille in the later Middle Ages.
Origin Late 17th century: from French béguine (see beguine2) + -age. |