Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A Middle English form of
nun .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete A nun.
Etymologies
Sorry, no etymologies found.
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word nonne.
Examples
-
In the House of Commons on Wednesday Ed Miliband asked a textbook "nonne" question only to find, to his astonishment and almost everyone else's, that the answer he got was a no.
-
The Latin language distinguishes between questions expecting the answer yes, which are prefaced by "nonne", and those expecting the answer no, which begin with a "num".
-
Or it can be piped out of a bag into hot oil, then sprinkled with sugar, like beignets in France, delicious little doughnuts, called, in a bit of choice French naming, pets de nonne, or nuns farts.
Ratio Michael Ruhlman 2009
-
Réalisatrice d'un 52 minutes, "Bouddha et la Biosphère", vis-à-vis par visiophonie entre une scientifique enfermée pour deux ans dans la Bulle de Biosphère2 en Arizona, et une nonne bouddhiste française «enfermée» dans son monastère près de Toulouse.
Archive 2008-10-14 2008
-
La nonne sanglante de M. Gounod, fournira bientôt à Mlle. Weirteimber l'occasion de se montrer dans un rôle créé pour elle et avec sa propre originalité
Lewis/Gounod's Bleeding Nonne: An Introduction and Translation of the Scribe/Delavigne Libretto 2005
-
Dum peregrinus hanc miram rationem de seipso reddit, hospes et uxor ejus, oculis intentis, peregrini nasum contemplantur — Per sanctos sanctasque omnes, ait hospitis uxor, nasis duodecim maximis in toto Argentorato major est! — estne, ait illa mariti in aurem insusurrans, nonne est nasus praegrandis?
-
Dum peregrinus hanc miram rationem de seipso reddit, hospes et uxor ejus, oculis intentis, peregrini nasum contemplantur — Per sanctos sanctasque omnes, ait hospitis uxor, nasis duodecim maximis in toto Argentorato major est! — estne, ait illa mariti in aurem insusurrans, nonne est nasus praegrandis?
-
Tunc dixit, Quis indicavit tibi quod nudus esses? nonne ex ipsa arbore de qua praeceperam tibi ne comederes, comedisti?
Commentary on Genesis - Volume 1 1509-1564 1996
-
Greges eorum, et substantia eorum et omnia jumenta eorum, nonne nostra erunt? tantum acquiescamus eis, et habitabunt nobiscum.
Commentary on Genesis - Volume 2 1509-1564 1996
-
* Ego ancillae tuae fidem habui: nonne tu impudens, qui nec mihi ipsi credis?
The Sermons of John Owen 1616-1683 1968
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.