Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A member of an order of nuns of the Roman Catholic Church, founded in 1535 and devoted to the education of girls.
- adjective Of or belonging to the Ursulines.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or pertaining to the Roman Catholic order or company of Ursulines.
- noun One of an order or company of Roman Catholic women founded by St. Angela Merici at Brescia in 1537, for the nursing of the sick and the teaching of young girls.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to St. Ursula, or the order of Ursulines.
- noun (R. C. Ch.) One of an order of nuns founded by St. Angela Merici, at Brescia, in Italy, about the year 1537, and so called from St. Ursula, under whose protection it was placed. The order was introduced into Canada as early as 1639, and into the United States in 1727. The members are devoted entirely to education.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One of a
Roman Catholic female religious order whosepatron saint is Saint Ursula.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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In the design of Saint Angela, the life of the Ursuline was to be a union of prayer and action.
The Life of the Venerable Mother Mary of the Incarnation A Religious of the Ursuline Community
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In the design of Saint Angela, the life of the Ursuline was to be a union of prayer and action.
The Life of the Venerable Mother Mary of the Incarnation Anonymous 1880
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"Ursuline," a song about a girl praying to the woman for which the small town is named - the story goes that she was canonized in the fourth century, following a Hun massacre that claimed her life, and those of the 11,000 virgins she was accompanying from England to Germany.
! Exclaim.ca - News 2009
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"Ursuline," a song about a girl praying to the woman for which the small town is named - the story goes that she was canonized in the fourth century, following a Hun massacre that claimed her life, and those of the 11,000 virgins she was accompanying from England to Germany.
! Exclaim.ca - News 2009
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"Ursuline," a song about a girl praying to the woman for which the small town is named - the story goes that she was canonized in the fourth century, following a Hun massacre that claimed her life, and those of the 11,000 virgins she was accompanying from England to Germany.
! Exclaim.ca - News 2009
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For example, in 1834 anti-Catholic riots in Charlestown, Massachusetts, destroyed the Ursuline convent; in 1844 there were deadly riots in Philadelphia over rumors that Catholics were going to remove the Bible from the public schools.36 Nor are Catholics the only group to face such animus.
American Grace Robert D. Putnam 2010
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An Ursuline nun, Sister Marie Madeleine Hachard, wrote several letters back to her family in France describing her life here.
Karen Dalton-Beninato: We're the Tops: New Orleans Tours Give an Inside View Karen Dalton-Beninato 2012
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An Ursuline nun, Sister Marie Madeleine Hachard, wrote several letters back to her family in France describing her life here.
Karen Dalton-Beninato: We're the Tops: New Orleans Tours Give an Inside View Karen Dalton-Beninato 2012
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Determined to wrest Françoise away from Protestantism, Mme de Neuillant twice sent her to Ursuline convents, where she eventually became a Catholic; but she developed a lasting distaste for the convent mentality.
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Determined to wrest Françoise away from Protestantism, Mme de Neuillant twice sent her to Ursuline convents, where she eventually became a Catholic; but she developed a lasting distaste for the convent mentality.
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